Latin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783741328Format PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book Publishers

Contemporary classicists often find themselves advocating for the value and relevance of Greco-Roman literature and culture, whether in the classroom, or social media, or newsprint and magazines. In this collection, 12 top scholars apply major critical...

This volume offers a wide range of sample passages from literature written in Latin in the British Isles during the period from about 1500 to 1800. It includes a general introduction to and bibliography to the Latin literature of these centuries, as well...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941927632Author Randy HiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint J2b Publishing LLCPublisher J2b Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 165g

The First Council of Ephesus (431) was the climax of the so-called Nestorian Controversy. Convoked by the emperor Theodosius II to restore peace to the Church, it immediately divided into two rival councils, both meeting at Ephesus. Attempts by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585104024Author Matthew HartnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

In Reading Medieval Latin with the Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat, Donka D. Markus offers comprehensive commentary on the 13th-century Dominican theologian Jacobus de Voragine's retelling of the ancient story of the life of the Buddha that will resonate...

This handbook of mediaeval Latin texts is designed for historians of the Middle Ages with some knowledge of Latin who wish to be able to read a wide range of original source material. The book contains examples of the writings of historians such as Bede,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988830698Author Thomas Van Den EndFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Bermuda WordPublisher Bermuda WordWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Poetic concision in abundance.It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in AD 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this ...

Basics of Latin: A Grammar with Readings and Exercises from the Christian Tradition by Derek Cooper introduces students, independent learners, and homeschoolers to the basics of Latin grammar with all readings and exercises taken from texts in the...

Rome's oldest known Latin inscription dates from the sixth century BC; the most recent major specimen was mounted in 2006-a span of more than two and a half millennia. Remarkably, many of these inscriptions are still to be found in situ, on the walls,...

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This edition, originally published in 1953 in the admirable Methuen Classical Texts series, has been in print ever since. It's longevity is deserved; for it remains a very fine edition, manageable at different levels of attainment. Maguinness had...

This edition, first published by BCP in 1984, is designed - with its extensive annotation and vocabulary - to provide all the help required by the comparative beginner in Latin who is coming to Lucretius for the first time. At the same time the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995761308Author Nevena D GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Klavisol LinguisticaPublisher Klavisol LinguisticaWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862922443Author Leonard R. PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

Anderson's text includes examinations of each of the books, notes, suggestions for further reading, and a Vergil chronology.Book InformationISBN 9781853991318Author William S. AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher...

The Catilinarians are a set of four speeches that Cicero, while consul in 63 BC, delivered before the senate and the Roman people against the conspirator Catiline and his followers. Or are they? Cicero did not publish the speeches until three years...

First published in 1867 and later revised, this grammar incorporates an account of morphology and accidence, a detailed and exemplified syntax and a final section on prosody (metrics). A Latin and English index and list of citations from individual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585102143Author VergilFormat PaperbackPage Count 534Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams)...

This anthology fills a gap which has been widely felt. It gives students - at sixth-form, undergraduate or junior graduate level - the opportunity of sampling a very wide variety of Latin prose texts, chosen to illustrate both development and generic...

Distinguished Latinist Andrew R. Dyck presents the first English commentary on Cicero's de natura deorum II in over fifty years. This text is the only connected exposition of Stoic theology to survive from the ancient world. It includes an argument for...

Distinguished Latinist Andrew R. Dyck presents the first English commentary on Cicero's de natura deorum II in over fifty years. This text is the only connected exposition of Stoic theology to survive from the ancient world. It includes an argument for...

By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture. Mythology had become instead a central element in elite culture. If one did not know the stories one would not understand most of the allusions in...

This volume contains testimonia and fragments of Cicero's speeches that circulated in antiquity but which have since been lost. This edition includes the fragmenta incertae sedis and an appendix on falsely identified oratorical fragments.Book...

The advent of the new discipline of Formal Semantics around forty years ago has resulted in a vast expansion in our knowledge and theoretical understanding of grammatical meaning. Semantics for Latin collects together this new material, applies it to...

In the first full-scale edition of Thomas Gray's Latin poetry, the Latin text and facing English translation are complemented by a detailed introduction and comprehensive commentary that situate Gray's Latin verse in relation to his vernacular poetry,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647266851Author Peter WatsonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye InternationalWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647266868Author Peter WatsonFormat HardbackPage Count 201Imprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye InternationalWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm)...

The three poems (Satires 7, 8 and 9) that comprise Book 3 of the Satires form a brilliant collection, displaying Juvenal at the height of his powers and in the full breadth of his interests. Satire 7 takes a jaundiced look at intellectual life in Rome,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883357269Author Ralph McinernyFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Dumb Ox Books,USPublisher Dumb Ox Books,USWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 222mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524863Author OvidFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 90g

In Reading Medieval Latin with the Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat, Donka D. Markus offers comprehensive commentary on the 13th-century Dominican theologian Jacobus de Voragine's retelling of the ancient story of the life of the Buddha that will resonate...

Politeness and Politics in Cicero's Letters presents a fresh examination of the letters exchanged between Cicero and correspondents, such as Pompey, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony during the final turbulent decades of the Roman Republic. Drawing upon...

Cicero's Brutus and Orator constitute his final major statements on the history of Roman oratory and the nature of the ideal orator. In the Brutus he traces the development of political and judicial speech over the span of 150 years, from the early...

Perhaps no other single Roman speech exemplifies the connection between oratory, politics and imperialism better than Cicero's De Provinciis Consularibus, pronounced to the senate in 56 BC. Cicero puts his talents at the service of the powerful...

This textbook provides a detailed introduction to the study of Latin from the perspective of contemporary linguistics. It adopts some basic tenets of generative grammar in an in-depth analysis of the main phonological, morphological, and syntactic...

By the end of the 15th century, Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), a learned middle-class woman of Venice, was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe. A cultural icon in her own time, she regularly corresponded with the king of France,...