Lucian and Historiography (Grk 985) University of Cincinnati Winter 2003 William A. Johnson
IBLIOGRAPHY
to Lucian
A Select and Evolving Guide
(after bibliographies by D. Konstan and M. D. McLeod)
Surveys
- McLeod, Matthew D. 1994. "Lucianic Studies since 1930," with a chapter (vii) on Byzantine imitations of Lucian by Barry Baldwin. ANRW II. 34.2 (ed. W. Haase): 1362-1421. A good overview of trends in Lucian studies of the last two generations. Not exhaustive (one must still consult L'Année Philologique).
- Additional bibliographical collections in Bompaire (1958), Betz (1961), Anderson (1976).
- For a survey of the Nachleben to Lucian, see C. Robinson, Lucian and his influence in Europe (London 1979).
Editions and Language
- Nineteenth-century editions such as Jacobitz (1836-41, 1851), Dindorf (1850-8), Frizsche (1860-82), Sommerbodt (1886-99) rely on an outmoded and incomplete view of the manuscript tradition, and thus must be used with caution.
- Nilén, N. 1906-23. Leipzig: Teubner. 19 works in 2 fasc.
- Harmon, A. M., Kilburn, K., Macleod M. D. 1913-67. Harvard: Loeb. 8 volumes.
- Macleod, M. D. 1972-87. Oxford: OCT. 4 volumes. Sadly, now $65 each.The
edition was damned at length in a review by H.-G. Nesselrath, Gnomon 56 (1984) 577-609; see MacLeod’s reply in ANRW
II 34.2, 1407-19 (beginning, “1984 was as grim a year for this editor of
Lucian as it was for Orwell’s characters…”).
- Chabert, S. 1897. L'atticisme de Lucien. Paris.
- Deferrari, Roy J. 1916. Lucian’s Atticism: The Morphology of the Verb. Princeton University Press; repr. by Hakkert, 1969.
- Mras, Karl. 1911. Die Ueberlieferung Lucians. Vienna. Not available at UC or through Ohiolink.
General Studies
- Helm, R. 1906. Lucian und Menipp. Leipzig.
- Caster, . 1937. Lucien et la pensée religeuse de son tempe. Paris.
- Householder, F. W. 1941. Literary quotation and allusion in Lucian. New York. Reviewed by D. S. Robertson, CR 50.93 (1942). Cf. also index to vol. 4 of MacLeod’s OCT; and (for a less charitable view) G. Anderson, “Lucian’s Classics: some shortcuts to culture,” BICS 23 (1959) 59-68, idem “Patterns in Lucian’s Quotations,” BICS 25 (1978) 97-100.
- Bompaire, J. 1958. Lucien Écrivain: imitation et création. Paris: E. de Boccard. Monumental, fundamental study of L.’s literary technique, with particular focus on mimesis.
- Betz, H. 1961. Lukian von Samosata und das Neue Testament. Berlin.
- Baldwin, Barry. 1973. Studies in Lucian. Toronto: Hakkert. Response to Bompaire, emphasizing Lucian's relation to his own world. Cf. also Baldwin’s article, “Lucian as a social satirist,” CQ n.s. 11 (1961) 199-208, where the Marxist slant is overdone.
- Anderson, Graham. 1976. Lucian: Theme and Variation in the Second Sophistic. Leiden: E.J. Brill = Mnemosyne suppl. 41
- Anderson, Graham. 1976. Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction. Leiden: E. J. Brill = Mnemosyne suppl. 43.
- Hall, J.A. 1981. Lucian's Satire. New York: Arno Press. A more sympathetic analysis of Lucian's wit and style than Bompaire's. Judged by MacLeod the best overview to Lucian.
- Anderson, Graham. 1982. “Lucian: a sophist’s sophist,” YClS 27 (1982) 61-92.
- Jones, Christopher P. 1986. Culture and Society in Lucian. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Lucian in relation to his own times; more systematic and subtle than Baldwin, but sometimes frumpy in his view of what constitutes social history.
- Branham, Bracht. 1989. Unruly Eloquence: Lucian and the Comedy of Traditions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Billault, A., ed. 1991. Lucien de Samosate. Lyons: Centre d'Etudes Romaines et Gallo-Romaines 13
- Anderson, Graham. 1994. "Lucian: Tradition vs. Reality." ANRW, II. 34.2 (ed. W.Haase): 1422-47.
- Georgiadou, Aristoula and Larmour, D. H. J. 1994. "Lucian and Historiography: 'De historia conscribenda' and 'Verae historiae.'" ANRW II.34.2 (ed. W. Haase): 1448-1509.
- Swain, Simon. 1996. Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism and Power in the Greek World AD 50-250. Oxford: Clarendon Press. A chapter on Lucian locates him as part of a revival of Greek national sentiment under the Roman Empire.
Lucian and the Second Sophistic
- Bowersock, G. W. 1969. Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire. Oxford.
- Bowie, E. L. 1970. “Greeks and their past in the second sophistic.” Past and Present 46 (1970) 3-41.
- Anderson, Graham. 1993. The Second Sophistic: A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire. London. To be read together with Bowersock for the wider context of Lucian's literary activity.
- Goldhill, Simon.2001. Being Greek under Rome. Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire. Cambridge.