Ancient Languages

This book is the first in its field. It showcases current and emerging communicative practices in the teaching and learning of ancient languages (Latin and Greek) across contemporary education in the US, the UK, South America and continental Europe. In...

Herodotus has shaped our knowledge of life, religion, war and politics in ancient Greece immeasurably, as well as being one of the most entertaining of all Classical Greek authors: fascinating, perceptive, accessible and not at all pretentious.Herodotus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789515185815Author Simo ParpolaFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint University of HelsinkiPublisher University of HelsinkiWeight(grams) 794g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700700639Author Rune E A JohanssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Curzon Press LtdPublisher Curzon Press LtdWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521013393Author M. LuukkoFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Ian Sanders Memorial FundPublisher Ian Sanders Memorial FundWeight(grams) 998g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524054Author CallimachusFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 84g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524214Author ParmenidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 120g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524009Author LukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 76g

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 9780929524672Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524245Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 80g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524122Author HeraclitusFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 110g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524023Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524955Author XenophonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 80g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524184Author Julia Haig GaisserFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 76g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989514286Author Matthias FritzFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Beech Stave PressPublisher Beech Stave Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885923066Author T P J van den HoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 163Imprint Oriental Institute of the University of ChicagoPublisher Oriental Institute of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763507851Author Jens Elmegard RasmussenFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)...

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885923424Author Martha T. RothFormat HardbackPage Count 510Imprint Oriental Institute of the University of ChicagoPublisher Oriental Institute of the...

This book addresses the question of whether there are continuities in Latin spanning the period from the early Republic through to the Romance languages. It is often maintained that various usages admitted by early comedy were rejected later by the...

The Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family of languages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Minor over a five hundred year span (ca. 1650-1180 B.C.) which witnessed the rise, the floruit, and the decline...

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...

Politeness serves to manage social relations or is wielded as an instrument of power. Through good manners, people demonstrate their educational background and social rank. This is the first book to bring together the most recent scholarship on...

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic...

To many people Aristophanes is the most immediately attractive and enjoyable of the Greek dramatists. No other comedies from the great age of Attic drama survive in a complete state, and the vigour of his fictions and the brilliance of his humour...

The essays in this informative book explore the impact of British classics--the study of Greco-Roman antiquity, with an emphasis on the classical Latin and Greek languages--beyond the borders of England itself, during the nineteenth and twentieth...

This volume honors Dennis G. Pardee, Henry Crown Professor of Hebrew Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and one of the preeminent experts in Northwest Semitic languages and literatures,...

The Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family of languages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Minor over a five hundred year span (ca. 1650-1180 B.C.) which witnessed the rise, the floruit, and the decline...

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, usually with a full and idiomatic...

This catalogue is intended to be only a checklist of the Brooklyn Museum's collection of 212 Demotic Egyptian texts. The catalogue provides both the Museum and Demoticists generally with a list of all the pieces plus only such information as would make...

Decades after Michael Ventris deciphered Linear B and showed that its language was Greek, nearly one-sixth of its syllabic signs' sound-values are still unknown. This book offers a new approach to establishing these undeciphered signs' possible values...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585104123Author ThucydidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 368g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789515185808Author Simo ParpolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint University of HelsinkiPublisher University of HelsinkiWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm)...

A self-teaching manual of Akkadian, the language of ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), this unique text is designed for beginners with no previous knowledge of any Semitic language.About the AuthorDavid Marcus is Assistant Professor at the Jewish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585101962Author Raymond Victor SchoderFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar...

A reprint of the University of Oklahoma Press edition of 1980.This reliable text presents a clear and simple outline of Greek and Latin meters in order that the verse of the Greeks and Romans may be read as poetry.About the AuthorJems W Halporn, Martin...