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Born in 4 b.c., Seneca lived during one of the most turbulent times in Roman history. He served as tutor and then adviser to the emperor Nero, witnessing firsthand many crimes and debaucheries. His experiences led him to turn away from public life and...

Volume 180 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891803Author Stephen William OmeltchenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The...

Barbarino's orthographic study is a quantitative and comparative analysis of the alternation of B and V in Latin inscriptions. His data is drawn from approximately 4,800 epitaphs that include Latin inscriptions from Roman provinces in Britain, the...

Volume 202 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807892022Author James Joseph ChampionFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of...

Paul A. Gaeng's exhaustive morpho-syntactic analysis of Latin nominal declensions, as found in Christian funerary inscriptions from the Roman Empire, seeks to establish the extent to which this inscribed material reflects the period's linguistic...

Although Cicero's Phillipics are his most mature speeches, they have received little attention as works of oratory. On the other hand, scholars in this century have considered Cicero's attitudes toward and dependence on Demosthenes to be an issue of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996264891Author Rose SpearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Madison Street PublishingPublisher Madison Street PublishingWeight(grams) 916g

The monograph concerns the origin of the Latin -ies/-ia inflection, the topic which to this day has not been explained satisfactorily. The proposal presented in the book allows for the most economic solution to the problem without difficult assumptions...

Patience and Salvation in Third Century North Africa: A Christian Latin Reader features the entirety of Tertullian's To Martyrs and The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, with selections from Cyprian's On the Good of Patience and a short appendix on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524399Author EinhardFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 80g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524764Author Penelope RaineyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 85g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524450Author OvidFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524474Author James W. HalpornFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 140g

Extensively field-tested and fine-tuned over many years, and designed specifically for a one-year course, JC McKeown's Classical Latin: An Introductory Course offers a thorough, fascinating, and playful grounding in Latin that combines the traditional...

ETYMA II is an undergraduate or advanced high school textbook for English vocabulary-building. It is divided into three parts, beginning with a brief history of foreign words in English, including information on families of languages, the Indo-European...

Studies on the Text of Macrobius' Saturnalia is a companion to new editions of Macrobius' encyclopedic dialogue that are to appear in the Loeb Classical Library and the Oxford Classical Texts series. The first chapter reports the results of a new survey...

This volume, first published in 1974, offers a selection of modern perspectives on Seneca, covering his prose treatises, his letters and his tragedies. For centuries literary and philosophical circles had to take Seneca seriously, even if they could not...

Latin Explorations, first published in 1963, offers a fresh approach to Roman poetry from Catullus to Ovid. Traditionally, the period is divided for specialist studies - Lyric, Epic and Elegy. In each of them, techniques of interpretation prevail,...

This study of Philostratus , first published in 1986, presents the Greek biographer's treatment of both sophists and holy men in the social and intellectual life of the early Roman Empire, which also displays his own distinctive literary personality as a...

Compiled by a team of experts in the field, this volume brings to view an array of Latin texts produced in British universities from c.1500 to 1700. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the production of Neo-Latin and Neo-Greek in the early modern...

In this volume, eminent scholar and translator Herbert W. Benario provides faithful, readable translations of three short works of Tacitus: Agricola-the fullest ancient account of Rome's conquest of Britain and of the public career of a senator in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524467Author OvidFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524498Author PetrarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524986Author ApuleiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 80g

In this age of the sound bite, what sort of author could be more relevant than a master of the epigram? Martial, the most influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a virtuoso of the form, but despite his pertinence to today's...

Ovid's Metamorphoses is a Latin reader designed to partner existing elementary Latin textbooks.The book features thirty compelling stories, graduated in difficulty and adapted from Ovid's epic Metamorphoses into prose. The original poem contains many...

Selections from Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights, The Lives of Nepos, Phaedrus' Fables in verse, and some Caesar are carefully aimed to interest and challenge, but not overtax, the college student who is not yet ready for complicated readings in Latin.Book...

Featuring a traditional, grammar-based approach, A New Latin Primer offers beginning students a solid overview of Latin grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. It provides concise, straightforward grammatical explanations and illustrates them with unadapted...

Latin Explorations, first published in 1963, offers a fresh approach to Roman poetry from Catullus to Ovid. Traditionally, the period is divided for specialist studies - Lyric, Epic and Elegy. In each of them, techniques of interpretation prevail,...

Book VI of Caesar's description of his campaigns in Gaul deals with events of 53 BC, teh year after his major expedition to Britain. He suppresses revolts in Northern Gaul and crosses the Rhine to deal with maurauding Germans, then pursues the chieftain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555408794Author Christopher P. CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 374g

Mock trial-Roman style.The Lesser Declamations, dating perhaps from the second century AD and attributed to Quintilian, might more accurately be described as emanating from "the school of Quintilian." The collection-here made available for the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884142935Author George Boys-StonesFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524849Author Cynthia DamonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 80g

The first book in English to provide texts and translations of all of Martin Luther’s neo-Latin poetry and a line-by-line commentary for each poem.

An annotated Neo-Latin text and translation of the Latin poetry of the 18th-century poet Thomas Gray.

The first modern editions and annotated English translations of two Latin texts important in literary history.

Christian Wedsted (1720-57) was a Moravian missionary, scribe and translator. Alongside his formal duties, he also composed a significant amount of Latin poetry. Here presented together for the first time alongside English translations are the 40 Latin...

In classic abecedarian fashion A B C Et Cetera, originally published in 1985, takes from the rich Roman cornucopia more than enough to demonstrate the fact that sixty percent of our working vocabulary descends directly from the Latin. Nothing in Roman...

Now endorsed by OCR and under review by Eduqas, this popular Latin course for students aged 11-16 is breathing new life into Latin teaching and learning. de Romanis is a vibrant and accessible introduction to both the Latin language and the cultural...