Ancient Languages

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...

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...

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...

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),...

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 9781934309667Author Andrew R. GeorgeFormat HardbackPage Count 193Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1588gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 20mm

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934309117Author Miguel CivilFormat HardbackPage Count 285Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1361gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 26mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934309100Author Giuseppe VisicatoFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1139gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 24mm

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 9789521094996Author Simo ParpolaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789514590597Author Mikko LuukkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectPublisher Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus ProjectWeight(grams)...

This book explores the relationship between the so-called ventive morpheme in Akkadian (-am) and the related suffixes -n and -a in other Semitic languages, including Amarna Canaanite, Ugaritic, Hebrew, and Arabic. Using formal reconstructions of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524948Author Gilbert P. RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 80gDimensions(mm)...

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 9780929524061Author EmpedoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 110g

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...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524184Author Julia Haig GaisserFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 76g

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)...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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...

Sanskrit has been taught in two ways: the age-old Indian technique involves learning language through the central, sacred texts; the formal Western methodology teaches the alphabet, declensions, grammar, and vocabulary building. The burgeoning interest...

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)...

Why do students today find Greek and Latin so difficult and frustrating to learn? Perhaps the primary barrier preventing us from learning another language successfully is that we often subconsciously believe that English is the standard for the way...

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...