Ancient Languages

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934309414Author Steven J. GarfinkleFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1297gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 26mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934309339Author Andrew R. GeorgeFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1633gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934309254Author Alhena GadottiFormat HardbackPage Count 183Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1093gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 19mm

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...

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) 1297gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 178mm...

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) 1429gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 183mm *...

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 9789521013393Author Mikko LuukkoFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectWeight(grams)...

This volume treats systematically the variation found in the successive stages of the development of all ancient Greek dialects. It combines synchronic approach, in which generative rules expound phonological divergencies between the systems of different...

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,...

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885923424Author Martha T. RothFormat HardbackPage Count 510Imprint Oriental Institute of the University of ChicagoPublisher Oriental Institute of the...

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...

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, usually with a full and idiomatic...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524146Author HerodotusFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 160g

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...

How did Ancient Greek express that an event occurred at a particular time, for a certain duration, or within a given time frame? The answer to these questions depends on a variety of conditions - the nature of the time noun, the tense and aspect of the...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735187419Author Lee BuchwalderFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Branch Publishing LLCPublisher Branch Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

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) 277gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

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...

This volume contains classical Greek text with English notes, and is a companion volume to "Sidgwick's Greek Prose Composition."Book InformationISBN 9780715616963Author A. SidgwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Bristol Classical...

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)...