Ancient Languages

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)...

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 9781853996771Author HARRISOFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 105gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853993763Author Peter BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

Greek Through Reading stresses the importance of early reading of good and varied Greek to give the student a sense of idiom. The Greek selections come from twenty-five authors ranging from Homer to the Anthology. These are arranged in fourteen...

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

Biblical Hebrew: A Compact Guide, Updated Edition by Miles V. Van Pelt is a handy, at-a-glance reference with summaries of Hebrew grammar, paradigms, and lexicon, and more. This book is ideal for consulting during translation and exegesis work and aids...

This handbook contains a classified list, with English equivalents, of 1500 words in common use among classical Greek historians, orators and philosophers. One hundred of these are dealt with at greater length in a supplement, which also focuses on a...

This is a course for those who wish to read Homer in the original tongue but know no Greek, or are only just beginning to work through a course in Classical Greek and wish to read Homer from a very early stage. It assumes no previous knowledge of Greek...

This concise volume provides brief original reading matter to illustrate key features of Greek grammar and syntax. Each chapter begins with an account of the grammatical issue in question; this is then followed by a selection of passages from Greek...

Introducing the work of 20 of the ancient world's greatest authors, this work presents brief, readable essays, fully illustrated with quotations from modern (and some ancient) translations. The writers covered include Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, the Greek...

"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...

Sponsored by the Department of Classics of Harvard University, a revised edition of the late Professor Smyth's A Greek Grammar for Colleges is now available. All necessary corrections have been made, and the book retains the form which has long made it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951244224Author Yatir NitzanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Yatir NitzanyPublisher Yatir NitzanyWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353618964Author Sanjay DFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Learn Tamil NowPublisher Learn Tamil NowWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm *...

The first textbook that systematically links syntax and exegesis of the New Testament-perfect for students of Greek who are "second-year" or at an intermediate level.For seminary students, the goal of studying Greek grammar in the first place is to...

A Historical Greek Reader provides an introduction to the history of the ancient Greek language by means of a series of texts with linguistic commentary, cross-referenced to each other and to a reference grammar at the front. It offers a selection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904799252Author Henry SweetFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Tiger of the StripePublisher Tiger of the StripeWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The original aim of this book was to provide an updated reprint of J.P. Postgate's "Short Guide to the Accentuation of Ancient Greek" (1924). It has developed considerably during the preparation, still including what was most useful in Postgate but now...

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,...

Biblical Greek Vocabulary in Context by Miles V. Van Pelt is designed to reinforce a student's basic Greek vocabulary by presenting words that occur twenty-five times or more in the context of the Greek New Testament.Miles Van Pelt collates all 513 of...

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'...

This classic school text book, first published in 1939, contains the essential 1000 commonest Greek words, ideal for students taking GCSE or A-level Greek. It provides an ideal format, comprehensive vocabulary with all the words that a beginning student...

This lively course on the origins and use of words derived from Latin and Greek, which make up over half the words commonly used in English and permeate all levels of education, is aimed at 11- to 13-year-olds. Each unit of the course is divided into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602643772Author Jeff A BennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Virtualbookworm.com PublishingPublisher Virtualbookworm.com PublishingWeight(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",...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528770842Author L a WaddellFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm

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...

This study argues that the vernacular fable constituted a productive site for negotiating scholastic poetics in late medieval England. On the basis of a close reading of Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale and Manciple's Tale, the book analyses how the concept...

Richard Seaford's edition of Euripides' Bacchae offers the first commentary in English on this fascinating play since that of E. R. Dodds in 1960. It takes account of the studies made on the play since it was written, as well as including discussion of...

Elementary Greek Translation was designed to accompany the same authors' Elementary Greek Exercises, so that the two books could conveniently be used together and translation be learned as well as composition. The book outlines essential grammar, so that...

Biblical Greek: A Compact Guide, Second Edition by William D. Mounce is a handy, at-a-glance reference for students, pastors, and teachers. It follows the organization and format of the fourth edition of Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar, but it's also...

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...

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...

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 9780929524139Author HerodotusFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 290g