Ancient Languages

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 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524139Author HerodotusFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 290g

While there are almost 1000 questions in the Greek New Testament, many commentators, pastors, and students skip over the questions for more 'theological' verses or worse they convert questions into statements to mine them for what they are saying...

The Encomium of Helen is thought to have been the demonstration piece of the Ancient Greek sophist, Presocratic philosopher and rhetorician, Gorgias. Students of Greek prose literature are regularly told that Gorgias is a figure of great importance in...

The verb is, in any language, the motor of all communication: no verb, no action. In Greek, verb forms change not only with person, number, tense, and voice, but in four possible moods as well. "The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek" is...

This edition of Iliad I provides an admirable introduction to a first reading of Homer. The book deals with the origin of Achilles' wrath which gives rise to the poem's main plot, which introduces principal characters such as Odysseus and Nestor and...

In 1798, young French general Napoleon Bonaparte entered Egypt with a veteran army and a specialist group of savants-scientists, engineers, and artists-his aim being not just conquest, but the rediscovery of the lost Nile kingdom. A year later, in the...

Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic by Benjamin J. Noonan is an introduction to issues of interest in the current world of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic scholarship. A growing knowledge of the Semitic languages and the field of linguistics...

A World of Heroes 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 important...

Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete New Testament Greek offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and ultimately how to translate the...

Cornelius Nepos was a Roman biographer who lived in the first century BC. His simple style of writing has made him a comparatively easy and popular author for use in Latin classes at early school level. This book contains the Latin text of his Lives of...

For many years, Homeric Greek has been a standard textbook for first-year Greek courses in college and preparatory schools. It offers students the exciting experience of learning to read a Homeric poem in the original language, while introducing them to...

Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydides, Euripides, and Aeschylus, among others, to examine and delineate the essentials of a noble style. The...

Set at the end of the Trojan war, "Euripides' Trojan Women" depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women of her...

This reader of Virgil's text features passages from the first half of the Aeneid and is designed to help students understand and appreciate Virgil's poem, as well as improve their Latin reading skills. Each Latin passage is accompanied by running...

This is a reissue in paperback of the second edition of Professor Allen's highly successful book on the pronunciation of Latin in Rome in the Golden Age. In the second edition the text of the first edition is reprinted virtually unchanged but is followed...

This book provides the key for teachers using North and Hillard's classic text, Latin Prose Composition, which has been in use throughout the world for over 100 years. The book provides the answers to the English to Latin composition exercises given in...

Upon its publication in 2002, Josef Tropper's Altathiopisch: Grammatik des Ga az mit UEbungstexten und Glossar was quickly recognized as the best modern grammar of Classical Ethiopic in any language. Now Eisenbrauns makes Tropper's grammar available for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862920913Author G.S. FarnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

A compact, student-friendly, and practical guide to Greek accents. In Basics of Greek Accents, John A. L. Lee provides eight simple lessons to teach students the basics of ancient Greek accentuation, covering basic rules, verbs, nouns, adjectives,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772896465Author Mark SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 1368gDimensions(mm)...

This introduction is suitable for the student with some knowledge of Greek who wishes to have access to Linear B material. Part One places the development of the Linear B script against its historical background; the earlier varieties of Aegean writing...

A Reader's Greek New Testament: Third Edition saves time and effort in studying the Greek New Testament. If a Greek word appears in the New Testament fewer than 30 times, then a definition is provided. This serves as an aid when you encounter less common...

"A must-have for anyone who is new and serious about exporing the subject further. Also recommended for advanced practitioners who may want to 'brush-up' on their Sanskrit." -- Yoga Magazine UK "This slim volume is a lot more than its title lets on." --...

Never be lost for words again...with this book of lost words. Have you ever wanted to wield the silver tongue of Loki, or to hammer home your point like a Thundergod? Old Norse is the language of legends and the stuff of sagas, the inspiration for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862920890Author Titus Maccius PlautusFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585101757Author Leslie Collins EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

Equips Students with Essential Tools to Quickly Grasp Akkadian and Move into TranslationBasics of Akkadian: A Complete Grammar, Workbook, and Lexicon, by Gordon P. Hugenberger with Nancy L. Erickson, is a one-semester introductory textbook to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984306510Author Geoffrey SteadmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Geoffrey SteadmanPublisher Geoffrey SteadmanWeight(grams) 245g

A syntax resource that's perfect for intermediate Hebrew students. This Basics workbook introduces students to the principles and exegetical benefits of discourse analysis (text linguistics) when applied to biblical Hebrew prose and poetry.Where standard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521094989Author Simo ParpolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991386093Author Geoffrey SteadmanFormat PaperbackImprint Geoffrey SteadmanPublisher Geoffrey SteadmanWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 6mm

The Zondervan Greek and English Interlinear New Testament (NASB/NIV) includes an Interlinear translation based on the Greek New Testament. This new, user-friendly reference tool for pastors, students, and scholars greatly enhances understanding of the...

This authoritative work is the first visual dictionary of Maya glyphs published since the script's complete decipherment, offering a much-needed, comprehensive catalogue of 1100 secured glyphs. Each entry includes the illustrated glyph, it's phonetic...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585103249Author William Henry Denham RouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

Coptic in 20 Lessons is written by the author of the most authoritative reference grammar of the Coptic language, and is based on decades of pedagogical experience. In easy steps and simple explanations, it teaches the patterns and syntax of Sahidic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806141435Author Louise PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 227g

Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly...