Ancient Languages

The Reading Biblical Greek Workbook is a companion resource to Reading Biblical Greek: A Grammar for Students. The workbook breaks up the Greek text of Mark 1-4 into manageable portions and provides the vocabulary and grammatical assistance required for...

What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have different personalities, and this is especially clear with languages of the ancient and medieval world. This...

This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advances in linguistics made in recent decades, it provides students, teachers and academics with a comprehensive...

Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary in Context by Miles V. Van Pelt and Gary D. Pratico is a biblical Hebrew language resource designed to reinforce a student's basic vocabulary by reading words that occur fifty times or more in the context of the Hebrew Bible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789352912230Author Sanjay DFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Learn Tamil NowPublisher Learn Tamil NowWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm *...

Reading Medieval Latin is an introduction to medieval Latin in its cultural and historical context and is designed to serve the needs of students who have completed the learning of basic classical Latin morphology and syntax. (Users of Reading Latin will...

"Key to Writing Greek" provides model translations for all the exercise sentences and continuous passages that appear in the authors' "Writing Greek", published simultaneously with this "Key"."Key to Writing Greek" provides model translations for all the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715615430Author H.J.K. UsherFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

A handy and colourful illustrated guide to reading, writing and understanding ancient Egyptian names, epithets, titles and phrases. The Egyptians believed that the creator god Ptah brought the world into being by naming everything in it. Names had great...

This book offers a selection of texts with vocabulary. Its purpose is to help readers understand and enjoy the New Testament in Greek. There are substantial excerpts from all four gospels, from Acts, and from a variety of epistles. The book is aimed at...

Presents a selection of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the most famous and influential collection of Greek and Roman myths in the world. It includes well-known stories like those of Daedalus and Icarus, Pygmalion, Narcissus and King Midas. The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486431369Author William Dwight WhitneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983222804Author Edgar Evan HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Stephen NimisPublisher Stephen NimisWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

This is a new and enlarged edition of Professor Allen's highly successful book on the pronunciation of Attic Greek in classical times. In this edition, Professor Allen has in particular revised the presentation of the controversial question of stress;...

This Hellenistic Greek reader is designed for students who have completed one or more years of Greek and wish to improve their reading ability and gain a better appreciation for the diversity of the language. The seventy passages in this reader reflect...

Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Middle Egyptian offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, access inscriptions in documents and monuments and even teaching...

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...

Aristophanes, the Athenian comic dramatist, remains popular despite historical changes in attitude and belief. Placing the plays in their total civic, religious and dramatic context, this account explores their significance for contemporary audiences,...

L.A Wilding's Latin Course for Schools, published in three parts, is well established as an excellent introduction to the language, providing details of grammar and syntax in an ordered and easily assimilable sequence. Continuous translation from...

An Introduction to Biblical Greek Grammar focuses on the linguistic and syntactic elements of Koine Greek to equip learners for accurate interpretation. Drawing upon twenty years of Greek teaching experience and the latest developments in linguistics and...

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 9781853997495Author Ashley CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 227g

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)...

Frederick William Danker, a world-renowned scholar of "New Testament Greek", is widely acclaimed for his 2000 revision of Walter Bauer's "Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature". With more than a quarter of a...

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...

This is the well established dictionary of Homeric Greek vocabulary based on the German original of Dr Georg Autenreith (1833-1900). Autenrieth's Homeric Dictionary has long been the best and most complete student's guide to the language and...

Colebourn's Latin Sentence and Idiom: A Composition Course is a classic textbook for the intermediate and advanced student of Latin. Unfolding the logical, rational basis of the language, the structure of the book is planned to help the student learn to...

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...

This book contains over fifty passages of Latin from 200 BC to AD 900, each with translation and linguistic commentary. It is not intended as an elementary reader (though suitable for university courses), but as an illustrative history of Latin covering...

In the ancient world Homer was recognised as the fountainhead of culture. His poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were universally admired as examples of great literature which could never be surpassed. In this study, Richard Jenkyns re-examines the two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589395343Author Jeff A BennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Virtualbookworm.com PublishingPublisher Virtualbookworm.com PublishingWeight(grams)...

Thomas K. Arnold's Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition was first published in 1839, and was later edited and revised by George Granville Bradley (1821-1903) of University College, Oxford. This graduated and systematic approach to elements...

This pivotal book of the "Aeneid" has Aeneas - like Odysseus in "Odyssey XI" - visiting the Underworld. He is poised, as it were, between the world of his 'Homeric' past, the wanderings he has undergone in the poem's first half, and the destiny mapped...

Since its publication in 2008, A Grammar of the Hittite Language has been the definitive Hittite reference and teaching tool. This new edition brings Hoffner and Melchert's essential work up to date, incorporating the dramatic progress achieved in the...

This is the invaluable teacher's key to the classic Greek Prose Composition - which has been in use throughout the world for over 100 years. It features brief lesson overviews followed by English to Greek composition exercises. The Appendix features...

"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 9781909281226Author SpckFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Piquant PublishingPublisher Piquant PublishingWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

A ghost summoned with bizarre rituals from the underworld, the elaborate protocol of the Persian court, desperate lamentation, self-mutilation, and a thrilling eye-witness account of the battle of Salamis - these are some of the features of Aeschylus'...

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)...