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Thread #57358   Message #901627
Posted By: masato sakurai
02-Mar-03 - 08:34 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Sorcerer's Apprentice - other versions?
Subject: RE: Folklore: Sorcerer's Apprentice - other versions?
The original Greek text is HERE (Reading Ancient Greek Texts). No English translation.
Lucianus' Philopseudes 34-36 (by Marjorie Hoefmans): this passage contains the charming ancient sorcery tale on which Goethe based his ballad Der Zauberlehrling and Paul Dukas his famous Sorcerer's Apprentice, which most people know from the Disney movie Fantasia. Lucian's Greek text is presented here with a Dutch translation along with a vocabulary list and some notes on the reception of the tale (in Dutch) which include the German text of Goethe's ballad. For the Greek text the font Greek.ttf has been used.
~Masato