Ancient Languages

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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...

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...

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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...

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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984306541Author Geoffrey SteadmanFormat PaperbackImprint Geoffrey SteadmanPublisher Geoffrey SteadmanWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

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...

Vocabulary acquisition is one of the most fundamental challenges in learning any language-ancient or modern. While many classical languages offer student-focused vocabulary resources, Akkadian has lacked such a tool despite its significance as a major...

Vocabulary acquisition is one of the most fundamental challenges in learning any language-ancient or modern. While many classical languages offer student-focused vocabulary resources, Akkadian has lacked such a tool despite its significance as a major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934309704Author Palmiro NotiziaFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1293gDimensions(mm) 284mm * 224mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934309605Author Francesco PomponioFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1279gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 24mm

"Surprisingly, Classical Sanskrit for Everyone is indeed for everyone. Playing tour guide to the 'curious,' the 'Yoga aficionado,' and the 'scholar' on an efficient itinerary through Sanskrit grammar and its philosophical cultures, Keating's book is...

This paperback edition of the 1927 text supplies a complete account of classical sanskrit, the literary language of ancient India. After a brief history of sanskrit grammar and a chart of the Devanagari letters, Macdonell, former Boden Professor of...

For readers of the mid-first century CE, Columella compiled a comprehensive curriculum of the agricultural discipline, aiming to cover every aspect of the field that might effect economic profit and environmental stewardship. Columella combines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905670673Author Kosmas DafasFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

The present volume is a "reader's edition" of 1 Clement, an important early Christian epistolary writing in Greek that probably dates from the late first century CE. The volume is designed for rapid reading and for classroom use. On each left-facing page...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941464182Author Michael J BazziFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Let in the Light PublishingPublisher Let in the Light PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...