Ancient Languages

Athanasius of Alexandria (bishop 328-373) is one of the great personalities of late-antique Christianity, and he is well-known to theologians and historians alike as a champion of orthodoxy against the 'Arian' heresy and a proponent of the ascetic life...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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 assailable sequence. Continuous translation from...

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...

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...

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...

The Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament sets a new standard as the most comprehensive book of its kind. Covering the entire vocabulary of the Greek New Testament, this revision of The Student's Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New...

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,...

In Book II of the "Aeneid", Aeneas relates to Dido his own account of Troy's destruction and his escape, including the episode of the Wooden Horse. It is some of the best Latin poetry ever written, and thus makes an ideal introduction to the "Aeneid"...

This is a collection of passages from Latin authors for unseen translation at A Level and first-year undergraduate level. The passages, unabridged but not otherwise adapted, are arranged according to difficulty, and the authors chosen are all regularly...

"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." --...

This is part one of a four-part prose reading course designed for beginners in Greek and other learners wishing to consolidate their reading skills. Particular attention is paid to idiomatic usage (both in Greek and English), word order and the use of...

Homer's Iliad has captivated readers and influenced writers and artists for more than two thousand years. Reading the poem in its original language provides an experience as challenging as it is rewarding. Most students encountering Homeric Greek for the...

Most of the Bible's verses that occur in Aramaic are in Ezra and Daniel, a linguistic occurrence that developed as a result of Israel's exile in Babylon. Totaling 269 verses, Aramaic is key language students of the Old Testament will need to master...

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This is a book which details and decyphers the dead language of Linear B. Linear B was one of the earliest written languages and was written by people who spoke "proto-Greek", i.e. the language which was later to become Classical Greek. The book lists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927166635Author Fiona McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Wayz PressPublisher Wayz PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm * 9mm

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 &...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940997179Author Stephen a NimisFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

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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...

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 nearly a century, Richard John Cunliffe's Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect has served as an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. As both an English-Homeric dictionary and a concordance, the Lexicon lists and...

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...

Contemporary classicists often find themselves advocating for the value and relevance of Greco-Roman literature and culture, whether in the classroom, or social media, or newsprint and magazines. In this collection, 12 top scholars apply major critical...

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...