Ancient Languages

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...

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 &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781394212Author Herbert Weir SmythFormat PaperbackPage Count 802Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 1157g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940997087Author Edgar Evan HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

The Symposium is a complex piece which is perhaps as widely read as any of Plato's works apart from the Republic. However, the existing standard commentaries in English do not offer much by way of help to any reader except the classicist who knows Greek;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472054459Author Carl Arne AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

Classical Latin appears to be without regional dialects, yet Latin evolved in little more than a millennium into a variety of different languages (the Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese etc.). Was regional diversity apparent from the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802879912Author Mark JeongFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983222880Author Edgar Evan HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

The JACT Reading Greek Course has been written for beginners in the upper school, at university and in adult education. Its aim is to enable students to read fifth- and fourth-century Attic Greek, Homer and Herodotus, with some fluency and intelligence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589832527Author Dietz, Otto EdzardFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical...

This reader contains selections from Tacitus, Suetonius and Seneca on the first five Roman emperors. They present a dark world of murder, mayhem, debauchery and palace intrigue: Augustus with his firm moral policies and secret adulterous affairs; the...

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

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...

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...

This is the first substantial commentary on Clouds since Dover's 1968 edition. Intended for intermediate Greek students at undergraduate and graduate levels, the commentary pays careful attention to the basic characteristics of ancient Greek syntax, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615976273Author T Michael W HalcombFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint GlossahousePublisher GlossahouseWeight(grams) 54g

This volume provides a unique overview of the broad historical, geographical and social range of Latin and Greek as second languages. It elucidates the techniques of Latin and Greek instruction across time and place, and the contrasting socio-political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781396612Author Geir T ZogaFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 984gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940997094Author Stephen NimisFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447042642Author Jeremy BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Harrassowitz VerlagPublisher Harrassowitz VerlagWeight(grams) 894gDimensions(mm) 240mm...

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...

This edition, first published by BCP in 1984, is designed - with its extensive annotation and vocabulary - to provide all the help required by the comparative beginner in Latin who is coming to Lucretius for the first time. At the same time 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983222859Author Edgar Evan HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

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)...

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

Coptic is the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language, written in an alphabet derived primarily from Greek instead of hieroglyphs. It borrows some vocabulary from ancient Greek, and it was used primarily for writing Christian scriptures and...

This book is the first in its field. It showcases current and emerging communicative practices in the teaching and learning of ancient languages (Latin and Greek) across contemporary education in the US, the UK, South America and continental Europe. In...

An accessible introduction that reveals the importance of Greek inscriptions in the understanding of ancient Greek culture. Inscriptions are an important form of evidence for our interpretation of past human societies. They are outstanding sources as...

The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic perspective which spans from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, the conference and its proceedings have paid...

Designed to accompany A Grammar of the Hittite Language, Part 1: Reference Grammar, this tutorial guides language learners through a series of graded lessons with illustrative sentences for translation drawn from actual Hittite texts. The tutorial is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817312855Author Manfred MayrhoferFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama...

A primary source collection of the Akkadian and Sumerian texts housed at the University of Pennsylvania. Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia is the third and final volume of published cuneiform texts housed at the University of...

Aeolic and Aeolians explores the origin of an ancient Greek language and the beginnings and evolution of the community of its speakers - the Aeolians. Roger Woodard argues that the starting point for both is situated in Asia Minor during the period of...