Ancient Languages

In this companion volume to his earlier work, The Latin Language, Leonard R. Palmer now provides a history of The Greek Language, including an overview of the coming of the Greeks, the Linear B. Tablets, the Greek dialects, genres (in poetry and prose),...

This is the first edition of a Latin text unlike any other surviving one : at first sight an extensive, jumbled list of words with explanations, on closer inspection a window on the teaching of Latin shorthand in North Africa c. AD 400, when we find...

This book was designed for students transitioning from the study of Greek grammar to translation of texts. It was developed in classroom use for classroom use, in the context of an integrated Great Books program in liberal arts and sciences. It is meant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789521094958Author Vladimir SazonovFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus...

This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Qumran Aramaic. Not only Aramaic texts from Qumran caves, but also contemporary texts originating from other neighbouring locations in the Judaean Desert such as Nahal Hever, Murabba'at, Jericho, and Massada...

A Commentary on Aristophanes' Knights presents a fresh look at the play that cemented Aristophanes' reputation as a rising star in comic theater. Knights offers an examination of social and political life in ancient Athens during the empire-destroying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447102285Author Petra GoedegebuureFormat HardbackPage Count 610Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 1297g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524061Author EmpedoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 110g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447102087Author Alwin KloekhorstFormat HardbackPage Count 716Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 1429g

Published in 1897, this two-volume work by Robert Seymour Conway (1864-1933), classical scholar and comparative philologist, later Hulme Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester, aims to shed light on the origins of the Latin language and Roman...

Oscan was spoken in Southern Italy in the second half of the first millennium BC. Here, for the first time, all the evidence for the spelling of Oscan in the Greek alphabet is collected and examined. Understanding the orthography of these inscriptions...

This pioneering volume approaches the languages and scripts of ancient Cyprus from an interdisciplinary point of view, with a primarily linguistic and epigraphic approach supplemented by a consideration of their historical and cultural context. The focus...

Emotions as 'the early form of knowledge about the surrounding world' constitute a necessary component of the human psyche. Nevertheless, through the ages of the development of mankind, the emotional aspect was often regarded as a dispensable part of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472114276Author Edmund CuevaFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442651654Author Vit BubenikFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 417g

The volume contains twenty-eight studies of various aspects of the case systems of Sumerian, Hurrian, Elamite, Eblaite, Ugaritic, Old Aramaic, Biblical Hebrew, Indo-European, the languages of the Bisitun inscription, Hittite, Armenian, Sabellic, Gothic,...

A number of ancient novelists were skilful storytellers and resourceful literary artists, and their works are often carefully individualised presentations of an ancient and distinguished heritage.Ancient Fiction, first published in 1984, examines the...

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...

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...

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...

When does a continuum become a divide? This book investigates the genetic relationship between Linear A and Linear B, two Bronze Age scripts attested on Crete and Mainland Greece and understood to have developed one out of the other. By using an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983222811Author Edgar Evan HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960024008Author Chaim BentorahFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint True PotentialPublisher True PotentialWeight(grams) 152g

This concise and well-organized grammar of classical Arabic, here translated from its original German into English for the first time, provides students of Arabic with a highly useful reference tool. While brief enough to be used with efficiency, the...

This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work...

Decades after Michael Ventris deciphered Linear B and showed that its language was Greek, nearly one-sixth of its syllabic signs' sound-values are still unknown. This book offers a new approach to establishing these undeciphered signs' possible values...

First published in 1978 and now thoroughly revised, Reading Greek is a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students of any age. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used in schools,...

Book XXI of Livy's history of Rome is one of the most frequently read either in its entirety or in extracts, for it includes Carthaginian campaigns in Spain and Hannibal's momentous crossing of the Alps to invade Italy. P.G. Walsh's edition is...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940997100Author Stephen a NimisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Europe, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447067829Author Konrad VolkFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 170mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789606796173Author Juan CoderchFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Methexis EditionsPublisher Methexis EditionsWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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...

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)...

Who invented the Greek alphabet and why? The purpose of this challenging book is to inquire systematically into the historical causes that underlay the radical shift from earlier and less efficient writing systems to the use of alphabetic writing. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588140456Author Daniel M. GurtnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint IBEX Publishers,U.S.Publisher IBEX Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams) 198g

Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean is the first volume to show the different ways in which surviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements of people in the ancient world. Eleven chapters cover a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849026390Author Herbert Weir SmythFormat HardbackPage Count 510Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 915g