Latin

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 April 56 BC, M. Caelius Rufus was prosecuted for vis by L. Sempronius Atratinus; Cicero successfully defended him, making this speech at his trial. Shortly before, Caelius, a prominent figure in public life at Rome, had ended a two year affair with...

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)...

'Will long remain not only the standard commentary on this work, but an indespensable aid to every student of Cicero. Nisbet's choice of the neglected In Pisonem was a happy one ... If Nisbet's treatment of textual matters deserves the highest praise,...

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...

Aulus Gellius, who lived in Rome in the mid-second century AD, wrote his Noctes Atticae in twenty books; of this most survives but lacks the beginning, end, and all of book 8 bar the chapter headings. The work is a collection of mainly short chapters...

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,...

Aulus Gellius, who lived in Rome un the mid-second century AD, wrote his Noctes Atticae in twenty books; of this most survives and only lacks the beginning, end, and all of book 8 bar the chapter headings. The work is a collection of end, and all of book...

Cicero in Letters is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models for subsequent letter writers from Pliny to Petrarch to...

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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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...