Ancient Languages

Learn to Read Greek is a text and workbook for students beginning the study of Ancient Greek. It is the companion volume to the authors' Learn to Read Latin, published in 2004. Like its Latin predecessor, it has a grammar-based approach and is intended...

Since its publication in 1990, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek has helped tens of thousands of students learn classical Greek. Building on the bestselling tradition of previous editions, the long-awaited third edition combines the best...

This edition, first published by BCP in 1984, is designed - with its extensive annotation and vocabulary - to provide all the help required by the comparative beginner in Latin who is coming to Lucretius for the first time. At the same time the...

This is one of the classic course books for those beginning ancient Greek. Designed to give students a working knowledge of the Greek languages in order to examine the ancient texts with confidence and enjoyment, the text includes some of the more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585103911Author Anne H. GrotonFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

Adult learners of ancient Greek are often attracted to it by the prospect of being able to read in the original a particular author or genre. Greek philosophical writing and Plato in particular is often the target. This book's material has been tried and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434315Author Geir T. ZoeGaFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

This simple, utilitarian edition offers sixth-form and undergraduate students an introduction to the enchanted, sometimes violent, often sad, often funny world of the "Metamorphoses". Book III is ideal in this respect, for it possesses a homogeneity...

A structured introduction to the reading of Biblical Hebrew texts, giving second-year Hebrew students the necessary practice to gain greater proficiency in using the language for exegesis and preaching.The updated second edition of the Graded Reader of...

This classic Latin composition book has been in use throughout the world for over 100 years. It features brief lesson overviews followed by English to Latin composition exercises. All common words and constructions are included.Special vocabularies are...

"In its patient, lucid philological approach to crucial issues, in its breathtakingly compact treatment of significant voices from Heraclitus to Job to Bergson, and in the studied independence of its own lines of development and conclusions, Boman's book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904799719Author Benjamin Hall KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Tiger XenophonPublisher Tiger XenophonWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524177Author Julia Haig GaisserFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 80g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940997926Author Edgar Evan HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

Designed for complete beginners, and tested with real learners, Complete Aramaic offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and even how to translate Biblical texts written in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979261800Author Isaac E MozesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Lightcatcher BooksPublisher Lightcatcher BooksWeight(grams) 826g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612436739Author Jason TalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 170g

"Via Plana" is not just another random collection of unseen exercises, presented to the student in the optimistic hope that somehow, they will muddle through and absorb some of the finer points of Latin grammar along the way. With a new approach, "Via...

An essential study resource for those studying and reading biblical Hebrew and GreekThis updated reader's Bible combines A Reader's Hebrew Bible and A Reader's Greek New Testament, Third Edition into one convenient and beautiful volume. It offers the...

"Nothing could be more systematic or more complete." - The Spectator Meissner's Latin Phrase Book has long been the standard school guide to Latin idiom. Covering every sphere of activity known to the Romans, from domestic life to politics, law,...

Based on Daniel C. Snell's original workbook and informed by his decades of teaching, this new and improved textbook provides an introductory course in basic cuneiform signs. Using a method of repetition that asks the student to actively produce the...

The Symposium is a complex piece which is perhaps as widely read as any of Plato's works apart from the Republic. However, the existing standard commentaries in English do not offer much by way of help to any reader except the classicist who knows Greek;...

Begin reading biblical Greek from the first lesson using lively, contemporary methods. This tool emphasizes developing reading skills rather than mastering technical grammar.Book InformationISBN 9780840711519Author Ian MacnairFormat PaperbackPage Count...

This useful edition includes Ferguson's introduction to the history of Greek theatre along with full notes and vocabulary.This useful edition includes Ferguson's introduction to the history of Greek theatre along with full notes and vocabulary.About the...

Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream of peace, of how the women could help to achieve an honourable settlement, conceived when Athens was going through its blackest, most desperate crisis since the Persian War...

What did Greek speakers in the Roman empire do when they wanted to learn Latin? They used Latin-learning materials containing authentic, enjoyable vignettes about daily life in the ancient world - shopping, banking, going to the baths, having fights,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853996573Author Peter JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

Building on and updating some of the issues addressed in Starting to Teach Latin, Steven Hunt provides a guide for novice and more experienced teachers of Latin in schools and colleges, who work with adapted and original Latin prose texts from beginners'...

A reprint, with new introductory essay, of the D. Reidel edition of 1973.This reissue of Charles Kahn's classic work includes a substantial new introductory essay, which presents a reformulation of the theory of syntactic and semantic unity for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715623350Author J. O. UrmsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

This edition of the first book of Ovid's "Amores" was first published in 1973 by OUP. It has been kept in print by BCP because it remains an outstandlingly useful volume. It was one of two editions (the other being Gordon Williams' "Horace 'Odes' III",...

The Aeneid of Virgil is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. This study by the Virgilian scholar R. Deryck Williams, first published in 1987 and long unavailable, sets the Aeneid in its historical literary background and shows how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802879912Author Mark JeongFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

Lonely Planet's Quechua Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Quechua phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask for hiking directions, learn about local culture and...

Fifty-four short devotions based on passages from the Hebrew Bible--written by some of the top biblical language scholars of today. The main point of each meditation in Devotions on the Hebrew Bible comes from a careful reading of the passage in the...

Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By...

Like Carl Darling Buck's Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), this book is an explanation of the similarities and differences between Greek and Latin morphology and lexicon through an account of their prehistory. It also aims to discuss the...

Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Revised Third Edition, provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and...

The Intellectual Revolution is a reader designed for students who have just completed an introductory course in ancient Greek and wish to read substantial passages of ancient authors in the original language. It introduces three of ancient Greece's most...