Ancient Languages

This reader contains selections from Tacitus, Suetonius and Seneca on the first five Roman emperors. They present a dark world of murder, mayhem, debauchery and palace intrigue: Augustus with his firm moral policies and secret adulterous affairs; the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942697640Author Jason AndersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint GlossahousePublisher GlossahouseWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524252Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 78g

This pioneering volume approaches the languages and scripts of ancient Cyprus from an interdisciplinary point of view, with a primarily linguistic and epigraphic approach supplemented by a consideration of their historical and cultural context. The focus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883053925Author Bendt AlsterFormat HardbackPage Count 426Imprint University Press of MarylandPublisher University Press of MarylandWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934309759Author Andrew R. GeorgeFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1746gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 29mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788891307651Author Alessandra AvanziniFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint L'Erma Di BretschneiderPublisher L'Erma Di BretschneiderWeight(grams) 680g

This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Qumran Aramaic. Not only Aramaic texts from Qumran caves, but also contemporary texts originating from other neighbouring locations in the Judaean Desert such as Nahal Hever, Murabba'at, Jericho, and Massada...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871697134Author David W. McAlpinFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788876534263Author G.A. MelikisviliFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint Gregorian & Biblical PressPublisher Gregorian & Biblical Press

Major revisions in this widely used text include: 1. Larger typefaces for all Greek paradigms; 2. Greatly expanded vocabularies, both Greek-English and English-Greek; 3. New review exercises for each lesson in both Greek and English; 4. New appendices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788491683759Author Ignasi-Xavier AdiegoFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Universitat de BarcelonaPublisher Universitat de BarcelonaWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981086997Author Dieter KurthFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Backe-VerlagPublisher Backe-VerlagWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 147mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788876537097Author J. SwetnamFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Gregorian & Biblical PressPublisher Gregorian & Biblical Press

Aristotle's Posterior Analytics elaborates for the first time in the history of Western philosophy the notions of science and the requirements for the distinctive kind of knowledge scientists possess. His model is mathematics and his treatment of science...

Thirty short reading selections from the Book of Entertaining Stories of Gregory Bar ʿEbrāyā, with an analysis of the grammar and vocabulary of the texts.Book InformationISBN 9781463244897Author John HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint Gorgias...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905670437Author Dyfri WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585103775Author Anne MahoneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams)...

This is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb, all of which will be reissued under the BCP imprint. They have occasionally been reprinted but never before in affordable paperback versions. In this set, each volume contains...

The surviving short mimes of Hero(n)das share much of their aims and background with the Alexandrian poetry of the first half of the third century BC, especially that of Callimachus and Theocritus. They are at once acutely aware of their literary...

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...

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)...

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...