Ancient Languages

How did Ancient Greek express that an event occurred at a particular time, for a certain duration, or within a given time frame? The answer to these questions depends on a variety of conditions - the nature of the time noun, the tense and aspect of the...

Within the field of ancient bilingualism, Sicily represents a unique terrain for analysis as a result of its incredibly rich linguistic history, in which 'colonial' languages belonging to branches as diverse as Italic (Oscan and Latin), Greek and Semitic...

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 9781593336059Author...

Originally published in 1909 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...

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The dialect of ancient Greek in which the Homeric epics the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed and later written down is sufficiently different from classical Attic Greek that it has always proven a stumbling block for students. Perceiving the need for...

This book is a study of Theocritus' narrating techniques, intertextual practices, and the relationship between them. By a close, careful description and analysis of these features as particularly deployed in Idylls 6, 11, 13, 24, and 15, J. Andrew Foster...

John Stuart Blackie (1805-1895) trained in law and studied divinity in Scotland and Germany before becoming a professor of Classics. Confident, well-travelled, vivacious, and outspoken, he delivered numerous public lectures, was instrumental in the...

No time like the present, not even the glorious pioneering decades between 1870 and 1930, has seen such a high number of able and enthusiastic contributors to Syriac studies. 'Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling ancient and modern vocabularies' brings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905670642Author G ManuwaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

William W. Goodwin (1831-1912) was Eliot Professor of Greek at Harvard from 1860 to 1901, and was the first director of the American School in Athens. This, his most important book, was written for nineteenth-century American students to make available...

The second volume of E. S. Robert's Introduction to Greek Epigraphy, written with E. A. Gardner and published in 1905, continued the important and innovative work of the first volume of 1887. The focus is on the inscriptions found in Attica, and...

This book is the outcome of the conference "Imperial Alexandria: Interactions between Science, Religion and Literature", held at Salamanca University in October 2011. The conference convened a group of experts from different fields to address...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737033035Author Elizabeth CrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Pixelia PublishingPublisher Pixelia PublishingWeight(grams) 172g

In this book, Roger D. Woodard argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon conceptually modeled on the performances of the oral poets. Since a time older than Greek...

John Thompson (c.1866-1936) was Classics master and headmaster (1908-27) at the prestigious High School, Dublin. A competent linguist, he translated from German, produced a Latin primer, and wrote a Sanskrit course, though he opposed the teaching of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933070578Author Volker RybatzkiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Research Institute for Inner Asian StudiesPublisher Research Institute for Inner...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524726Author PindarFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 80g

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Why learn to write in a dead language? Because a really good understanding of a language can only be attained by using it actively. Unlike earlier textbooks aimed at schoolboys, this work addresses modern adults who want to understand concepts fully as...

Ancient Greek expressed the agents of passive verbs by a variety of means, and this work explores the language's development of prepositions which marked the agents of passive verbs. After an initial look at the pragmatics of agent constructions, it...

Homeric Greek has a particularly rich system of moods which are analysed in this 2007 book in the light of theoretical interest in the semantic domain of modality. The domain is one of the most complex and interesting, since modal forms are used for the...

Latin translations of Greek works have received much less attention than vernacular translations of classical works. This book examines the work of three Latin translators of the Renaissance. The versions of Aristotle made by Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444)...

The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyses their effect on how Latin...

Apuleius' famous novel, The Metamorphoses, tells the story of a man who was magically changed into an ass, and who had various (humorous, sad, exciting, disturbing, erotic, horrific) adventures before he regained his human form. As well as being...

Professor Powell ties the origin and nature of archaic Greek literature to the special technology of Greek alphabetic writing. In building his model he presents chapters on specialized topics - text, orality, myth, literacy, tradition and memorization -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982008515Author Janet Marie MagieraFormat HardbackPage Count 744Imprint Light of the Word MinistryPublisher Light of the Word MinistryWeight(grams)...

The reconstruction of the prosody of a dead language is, on the face of it, an almost impossible undertaking. However, once a general theory of prosody has been developed from reliable data in living languages, it is possible to exploit texts as sources...

This collection of Cicero's letters, in Latin with an introduction and notes by Frank Frost Abbott, is representative of the whole collection that has descended to modern times. Arranged chronologically, the selection is rich in the letters Cicero wrote...

In Latin Alive, Joseph Solodow tells the story of how Latin developed into modern French, Spanish, and Italian, and deeply affected English as well. Offering a gripping narrative of language change, Solodow charts Latin's course from classical times to...

Primeros Memoriales is published here for the first time in its entirety both in the original Nahuatl and in English translation.The volume follows the manuscript order reconstructed for the Primeros Memoriales by Francisco del Paso y Troncoso in his...

The reconstruction of the prosody of a dead language is, on the face of it, an almost impossible undertaking. However, once a general theory of prosody has been developed from eliable data in living languages, it is possible to exploit texts as sources...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985112561Author Roy Morgan GessfordFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Let in the Light PublishingPublisher Let in the Light PublishingWeight(grams)...

Homeric Greek has a particularly rich system of moods which are analysed in this 2007 book in the light of theoretical interest in the semantic domain of modality. The domain is one of the most complex and interesting, since modal forms are used for the...

Professor Powell ties the origin and nature of archaic Greek literature to the special technology of Greek alphabetic writing. In building his model he presents chapters on specialized topics - text, orality, myth, literacy, tradition and memorization -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597526692Author George CurtiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 395Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 490g

Within the field of ancient bilingualism, Sicily represents a unique terrain for analysis as a result of its incredibly rich linguistic history, in which 'colonial' languages belonging to branches as diverse as Italic (Oscan and Latin), Greek and Semitic...

What is colloquial Latin? What can we learn about it from Roman literature, and how does an understanding of colloquial Latin enhance our appreciation of literature? This book sets out to answer such questions, beginning with examinations of how the term...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498189729Author Edward Jacob BoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937847005Author Peter SipesFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Pluteo PlenoPublisher Pluteo PlenoWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 2mm