Managed to publish a Greek reader edition of The Life of Saint Antony in spite of Amazon

[u/Nihlithian]

https://lectioecclesiae.com/books/life-of-antony/

A while ago I started making Latin and Greek readers for myself in the style of Lingua Latina. I'm working toward a career in canon law, and maybe a PhD in theology, and wanted to get more comprehensible input but wanted that input to be related to the Church and the saints.

After making a few, I decided to publish them on Amazon. I didn't realize until after I'd submitted the manuscript was that Amazon's publishing side doesn't really handle Greek. I reached out to support and explained the situation. They said it would be fine as long as I didn't publish an e-book, and that better Greek support is coming eventually.

So I was able to publish Athanasius's Life of Saint Antony in a format inspired by Lingua Latina, where the harder words are explained in the margin. It's meant for anyone who has worked a bit through Athenaze or has studied Koine for about a year. Athanasius wrote in a more literary Koine but it's very readable with the notes.

There's a free sample on the website so you can gauge if it meets your reading level before picking one up.

I have more planned, I've just been a bit swamped getting the Latin editions published. I really want to work on a bilingual Greek/English edition like the Latin ones I did. I have some of them already done, I just need to do the formatting work.

Would love to hear what you think, or what you'd want to read.

[u/Available_Base_7944]

Awesome bro I love the life of Saint Anthony 

[u/Nihlithian → u/Available_Base_7944]

Putting the art in the book was so fun. I have some really nice plates of him battling demons in the desert.

[u/Available_Base_7944 → u/Nihlithian]

I read about him so early in my faith journey. I think you can make an argument that he went too far (sleeping with the tombs is not good I think) but his story instilled in me that the Christian life is to take up your cross and deny yourself