Ancient Languages

Tense is at its most interesting when it behaves badly. In this book Arjan Nijk investigates the variation between the past and present tenses to refer to past events in Classical Greek and beyond. Adopting a cognitive approach to the issue, he argues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500290286Author Bill ManleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Thames & Hudson LtdPublisher Thames & Hudson LtdWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 245mm *...

This is part three 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 9780862921491Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm)...

Thomas Kerchever Arnold's Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition first appeared in 1838 and was reprinted in several editions due to popular demand, being adopted as a textbook in leading public schools. Ordained as a priest in 1827 after...

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Latin translations of Greek works have received much less attention than vernacular translations of classical works. This book examines the work of three Latin translators of the Renaissance. The versions of Aristotle made by Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444)...

Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. This companion sets the play in its historical context,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524191Author LysiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 110g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552126684Author Edo NylandFormat PaperbackPage Count 541Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford Publishing

In 1952 Michael Ventris deciphered the script found on the Linear B tablets from Crete and the Greek mainland, therefore revealing the earliest known form of Greek. In 1956 he and John Chadwick published Documents in Mycenaean Greek, which gave an...

Modern languages like English, Spanish, Russian and Hindi as well as ancient languages like Greek, Latin and Sanskrit all belong to the Indo-European language family, which means that they all descend from a common ancestor. But how, more precisely, are...

Learn Latin from the Romans is the only introductory Latin textbook to feature texts written by ancient Romans for Latin learners. These texts, the 'colloquia', consist of dialogues and narratives about daily life similar to those found in...

In 1798, young French general Napoleon Bonaparte entered Egypt with a veteran army and a specialist group of savants-scientists, engineers, and artists-his aim being not just conquest, but the rediscovery of the lost Nile kingdom. A year later, in the...

Through words and images employed both by individuals and by a range of communities across the Graeco-Roman worlds, this book explores the complexity of multilingual representations of identity. Starting with the advent of literacy in the Mediterranean,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853993992Author Alison BalaamFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939054531Author Chris HeggFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Rowe PublishingPublisher Rowe PublishingWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm *...

The Colloquia are manuals written to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages; they contain examples of how to conduct activities like shopping, banking, visiting friends, hosting parties, taking oaths, winning lawsuits, using...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862921736Author G. NussbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585107100Author Jon BrussFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 454g

Facility in reading an ancient language requires several competencies: control of the morphology, a working vocabulary of common words and phrases, and a grasp of syntax. This pedagogical aide addresses the first of these by collecting the basic forms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853991905Author J. M. MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

The Sixth Book of Herodotus covers the history of Greece in the first decade of the fifth century BC, including such momentous events as the Ionian revolt and the Marathon Campaign. This commentary, aimed at undergraduates and sixth-formers, is intended...

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Henry John Roby (1830-1915) was a Cambridge-educated classicist whose influential career included periods as a schoolmaster, professor of Roman law, businessman, educational reformer and Member of Parliament. His two-volume Grammar of the Latin Language...

The Colloquia are manuals written to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages; they contain examples of how to conduct activities like shopping, banking, visiting friends, hosting parties, taking oaths, winning lawsuits, using...

What is colloquial Latin? What can we learn about it from Roman literature, and how does an understanding of colloquial Latin enhance our appreciation of literature? This book sets out to answer such questions, beginning with examinations of how the term...

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 volume offers a new and interdisciplinary treatment of syllabic writing in ancient Cyprus. A team of distinguished scholars tackles epigraphic, palaeographic, linguistic, archaeological, historical and terminological problems relating to the...

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...

Situated at the crossroads of comparative philology, classics and general historical linguistics, this study is the first ever attempt to outline in full the developments which led from the remotest recoverable stages of the Indo-European proto-language...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942697749Author Shawn J WilhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint GlossahousePublisher GlossahouseWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942697640Author Jason AndersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint GlossahousePublisher GlossahouseWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524252Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 78g

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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788876533181Author J.A. FitzmyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 343Imprint Pontificio Istituto BiblicoPublisher Pontificio Istituto Biblico

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...