Latin

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...

Even for an experienced reader of Latin, the Psalter sometimes follows underlying Greek and ultimately Hebrew idiom too literally and thus poses real difficulties. This new commentary on selected psalms, the first for decades, seeks to resolve these...

Learn to Read Latin helps students acquire an ability to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature as quickly as possible. It not only presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with clear explanations and examples but also offers direct...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449530723Author Clark L HighsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

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...

This anthology offers a comprehensive introduction to Pliny the Younger's Epistulae for intermediate and advanced Latin students, with the grammatical, lexical, and historical support to enable them to read quickly and fluidly. As the only selection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735060149Author Fr William MostFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Mediatrix PressPublisher Mediatrix PressWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

This school edition of Caesar's Gallic War book III contains an introduction giving background and context, the Latin text, notes on the text and vocabulary.About the AuthorJoseph Lacy Whiteley taught Classics at Kilburn Grammar School, Middlesex and...

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"To teach correct Latin and to explain the poets" were the two standard duties of Roman teachers. Not only was a command of literary Latin a prerequisite for political and social advancement, but a sense of Latin's history and importance contributed to...

This volume contains 80 comprehension exercises for use in schools. They are graded by length and difficulty so that they can profitably be used in the run-up to GCSE and then on through to A-Level. They may function as practice for examination...

Born in 39 C.E., the Roman poet Lucan lived during the turbulent reign of the emperor Nero. Prior to his death in 65 C.E., Lucan wrote prolifically, yet beyond some fragments, only his epic poem, the Civil War, has survived. Acclaimed by critics as one...

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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101980231Author Ann PattyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

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This selection from Caesar's Gallic War, intended for use in schools, includes the following passages in Latin: Book IV, chapters 20-36, and Book V, chapters 8-23. These cover Caesar's expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC. Eight explanatory sections in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780829410266Author Robert J HenleFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Loyola University Press,U.S.Publisher Loyola University Press,U.S.

Learn to Read Latin helps students acquire an ability to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature as quickly as possible. It not only presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with clear explanations and examples but also offers direct...

From Republic to Empire challenges the long-held view that Silius Italicus' Punica is a nostalgic epic and argues that it is, instead, centrally concerned with and fundamentally shaped by the contemporary Flavian world in which it was composed. The epic...

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Intensive Intermediate Latin: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible grammar and related exercises in a single volume. It outlines every major grammatical point usually taught in an intermediate college Latin course, as well as other grammatical...

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This text sets out to illuminate all the central themes of Roman satire. It offers a synchronic assessment of different aspects of the work of Lucilius, Horace, Persius and Juvenal: their aims; their styles; and their views on freedom of speech, class...

Alexander and Nicholas Humez have fashioned an easy-going and satisfying introduction to the language that is the wellspring of the mother tongue. Their brief history of Classical and Vulgar Latin, explanation of the language's grammatical and sound...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979505126Author Walter B. GunnisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Armfield Academic PressPublisher Armfield Academic PressWeight(grams)...

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Latin text, with Latin-English vocabulary and notes in English.Book InformationISBN 9780862921712Author VirgilFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 340g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628372106Author George Boys-StonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical...

Learn to Read Latin helps students acquire an ability to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature as quickly as possible. It not only presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with clear explanations and examples but also offers direct...

Francesco Filelfo's philosophical dialogue On Exile (ca. 1440) depicts a prominent group of Florentine noblemen and humanists, driven from their city by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the sufferings imposed by exile such as poverty and loss of reputation,...