Ancient Languages

This paperback edition of the 1927 text supplies a complete account of classical sanskrit, the literary language of ancient India. After a brief history of sanskrit grammar and a chart of the Devanagari letters, Macdonell, former Boden Professor of...

For readers of the mid-first century CE, Columella compiled a comprehensive curriculum of the agricultural discipline, aiming to cover every aspect of the field that might effect economic profit and environmental stewardship. Columella combines...

A study of the Uralic and Yukaghir protolanguages, focusing on lexical comparisons, with a detailed account of the history of Uralo-Yukaghir research.Book InformationISBN 9781463247706Author Václav BlažekFormat HardbackPage Count 287Imprint Gorgias...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447115315Author Fred C WoudhuizenFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 649g

Approaches to Homer’s ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ consists of ten original essays on the Iliad and Odyssey by established Homeric scholars and university professors of Greek literature and culture. The anthology offers not only fresh approaches to reading,...

Originally published in 1906, this textbook's principal aim is to give 'the facts of the language as they appear in the accepted models of Classical Latin'. Predominantly written for school students, this highly informative book sets out to educate the...

Part I of this two-way index for the Septuagint shows which Hebrew/Aramaic word or words corresponds or correspond to a given Greek word in the Septuagint and how many times such an equation applies. This information was provided to a certain extent in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589833609Author Craig A. GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 604Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521013386Author M. LuukkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Ian Sanders Memorial FundPublisher Ian Sanders Memorial FundWeight(grams) 862g

The reception of Mediterranean Antiquity heritage is one of the dominant research areas in contemporary classical studies. This issue has constituted the scope of the conference Reception of Ancient Myths in Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Culture, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987645659Author Joannes ZonarasFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint ContubernalesPublisher ContubernalesWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218229627Author Stephen CadieuxFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Stephen CadieuxPublisher Stephen CadieuxWeight(grams) 585g

In 13th-century Toledo, King Alfonso the Wise fostered the publication of Castilian translations of certain Arabic works that had in turn been translated from Greek and Pehlvi. In this book, which is the revised English version of the Spanish original...

In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing systems competed and interacted, and bilingualism was the norm. Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology and the sociolinguistics of language contact, this book explores the relationship...

Arayathinal's grammar is among the most comprehensive Syriac grammars ever produced. Designed as a teaching text, this volume is also a solid reference grammar for use by advanced scholars and beginners alike.Book InformationISBN 9781593335137Author...

In the past, discussions of absolute constructions (ACs) have been limited by an imprecise understanding of what ACs are. By examining the nature and function of ACs and related constructions in Greek, Latin and Sanskrit, this new study arrives at a...

The end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries have involved much discussion on overhauling and refining a scholarly understanding of the verbal system for first-century Greek. These discussions have included advances in verbal...

Henry John Roby (1830-1915) was a Cambridge-educated classicist whose influential career included periods as a schoolmaster, professor of Roman law, businessman, educational reformer and Member of Parliament. His two-volume Grammar of the Latin Language...

Originally published in 1901, this book presents a collection of Greek and Latin compositions by the British classicist and Cambridge scholar Richard Shilleto (1809-76). The compositions were made during a period of over 40 years and largely served as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732475014Author Michael FontaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study, Inc.Publisher Paideia Institute for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939926142Author Todd M HickeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint California Classical StudiesPublisher California Classical StudiesWeight(grams) 295g

Contemporaries as Cambridge undergraduates in the late 1840s, Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-89), Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-92), and John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825-1910) all went on to distinguished careers. Mayor, a classical scholar, became...

Arayathinal's grammar is among the most comprehensive Syriac grammars ever produced. Designed as a teaching text, this volume is also a solid reference grammar for use by advanced scholars and beginners alike.Book InformationISBN 9781593335144Author...

Originally published 1934, this book addresses the history of the pronunciation of ecclesiastical Latin, particularly in England. Brittain traces developments in pronunciation from the Middle Ages, when Latin was evolving into the various Romance...

In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing systems competed and interacted, and bilingualism was the norm. Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology and the sociolinguistics of language contact, this book explores the relationship...

John William Donaldson (1811-61), though somewhat unorthodox in his methods, was an important, if controversial, figure in the development of comparative philology. In this 1844 publication, he attempts to supply young English scholars of Latin with an...

This work explores the misconceptions about the Ottoman Suryani community of the pre-World War I era, using a critique of the present day historiography as the context for the discussion. The works of three early twentieth century journalists, provide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628370379Author Professor T MuraokaFormat PaperbackImprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 685g

Contemporaries as Cambridge undergraduates in the late 1840s, Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-89), Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-92), and John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825-1910) all went on to distinguished careers. Mayor, a classical scholar, became...

Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) is a peer-reviewed series devoted to the publication of monographs pertaining to all aspects of the history, culture, literature, religion, art, and archaeology of the Ancient Near East, from the earliest...

Henry John Roby (1830-1915) was a Cambridge-educated classicist whose influential career included periods as a schoolmaster, professor of Roman law, businessman, educational reformer and Member of Parliament. Elementary Latin Grammar (1862) is a...

In 1887, when the first volume of this work was published, Greek epigraphy was not systematically studied or taught in English universities, and the book was specifically written to fulfil a need for 'a popular work, giving a classification of Greek...

The late Bruce Karl Braswell worked on Pindar for decades. Besides many smaller contributions, his research resulted in fundamental commentaries on Pythian Four (1988), Nemean One (1992), and Nemean Nine (1998), and his last monograph, dedicated to...

Thomas Kerchever Arnold's Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition first appeared in 1839 and was reprinted in several editions due to popular demand, being adopted as a textbook in leading public schools. Ordained as a priest in 1827 after...

Originally published in 1915 and written by British born Australian academic and Emeritus Professor of Classics in the University of Adelaide, Henry Darnley Naylor, this textbook is aimed at school students as well as undergraduates and provides...

Henry Nettleship (1839-1893), Professor of Latin at Oxford, published his work on Latin lexicography in 1889. The volume had originally been planned as a complete Latin lexicon; however, after almost twelve years (during which Lewis and Short's Latin...

Published in 1897, this two-volume work by Robert Seymour Conway (1864-1933), classical scholar and comparative philologist, later Hulme Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester, aims to shed light on the origins of the Latin language and Roman...

This volume contains selected papers from the XV International Graduate Conference, highlighting the latest scholarship from a new generation of Late Antique and Byzantine scholars from around the world. The theme of the conference explored the...

Published in 1897, this two-volume work by Robert Seymour Conway (1864-1933), classical scholar and comparative philologist, later Hulme Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester, aims to shed light on the origins of the Latin language and Roman...

Sir Uvedale Price (1747-1829) most notably concerned himself with questions of the preservation of natural beauty and harmony in landscape gardening. His Essay on the Picturesque (1794) and Letter to H. Repton (second edition, 1798) are also reissued in...