Ancient Languages

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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 PressPublisher...

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...

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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

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Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar...

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...

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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...

In 1882, D.B. Munro wrote that "a new Grammar of the Homeric dialect is sorely wanted". Apart from this, the 1891 second edition - long out of print, never available in paperback - nothing has ever replaced Monro's original text. Presented here in its...

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This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia Minor, 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 9780862920630Author Titus Maccius PlautusFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

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When Dead Tongues Speak introduces classicists to the research that linguists, psychologists, and language teachers have conducted over the past thirty years and passes along their most important insights. The essays cover a broad range of topics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715614686Author H.W. AudenFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

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This is a convenient and serviceable introduction to Homer for beginners: its brief and clearly written sections address most of the areas included in the GCSE Classical Civilisation Homer module, and the text is broken up by appropriate illustrations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940997025Author Edgar Evan HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

A Historical Greek Reader provides an introduction to the history of the ancient Greek language by means of a series of texts with linguistic commentary, cross-referenced to each other and to a reference grammar at the front. It offers a selection of...

This study of the Greek language is divided into two parts. The first is an outline history of the language and the second is a comparative-historical account of the grammar. The chapters in the first part deal with the pre-history (Greek and...

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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 is part four of a four-unit prose reading course designed for beginners in Greek and other learners wishing to consolidate their reading skills. Particular attention is paid to idiomatic usage (both in Greek and English), word order and the use of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585106318Author Anne H. GrotonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams)...

This selection of the poems of Theocritus illustrates his creative genius and rare powers of observation. Dover's introduction and notes offer insights into both the writing and the life and times of the poet.Book InformationISBN 9780862921477Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628370317Author Charles R KrahmalkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621711490Author Joseph R DongellFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint First Fruits PressPublisher First Fruits PressWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm)...