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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,...

The Jesuits were a major source of European information on Japan from the late 16th to early 17th century. Not only were they active missionaries but they also produced linguistic, religious and cultural tracts, regional chronicles, as well as hundreds...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789061868590Author Jozef IjsewijnFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Leuven University PressPublisher Leuven University PressWeight(grams) 992g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853995309Author W.Michael WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780829410297Author Robert J HenleFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Loyola University Press,U.S.Publisher Loyola University Press,U.S.

The work of the Latin elegiac poet Tibullus (c. 55-19 b.c.) is characterized by an artful, witty ""simplicity,"" and it relies on repetition, ambiguity, irony, and paradox for its effect. His poetry appealed to his countrymen in his own time, as it still...

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,...

Winner of the Ladislaus J. Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award, Classical Association of the Middle West and South's (CAMWS). A comic masterpiece of classical antiquity, the Satyrica (or Satyricon) of Petronius is a tantalizing work of fiction - part poetry,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853996856Author H. E. GouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

A new translation of, and commentary on, Cicero's defence of Publius Sestius against a charge of public violence. Pro Sestio is arguably the most important of Cicero's political speeches that survive from the nearly two decades separating the Speeches...

Latin is often described as a free word order language, but in general each word order encodes a particular information structure: in that sense, each word order has a different meaning. Pragmatics for Latin provides a descriptive analysis of Latin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906515341Author VirgilFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 366gDimensions(mm)...

This is the essential reference companion for all who use French for business communication. Containing over 5000 words, this handy two-way A-Z glossary covers the most commonly used terms in business. It will help you to communicate with confidence in a...

A classic of western literature, Julius Caesar's Gallic War is also a staple of Latin language instruction at both the high school and college levels. This new edition for students, prepared by a senior classical scholar and translator, is among the most...

The papers in this volume are based on a 2018 conference in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in honor of Richard Tarrant, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, on the occasion of his retirement.The breadth of authors,...

The study of classical languages by earlier generations of English-speaking students was greatly facilitated by the study of English grammar in the schools, a tradition now out of favor but one that emphasized precisely the concepts, terms, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862921316Author LivyFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 175gDimensions(mm)...

In his ""Latin Grammar"", Dirk Panhuis has created an innovative reference that makes use of many of the advances that have taken place in linguistics during the last half century. Using a syntactic - instead of the traditional morphological - approach...

The ten speeches in this volume illustrate Cicero's entire career and exemplify all the major contexts for his oratory: before the senate, the people, and the courts. They illuminate the major political crises of Cicero's time and offer portraits of many...

Sallust's account of the conspiracy raises considerable historical problems, and the moral intention and political bias and style can make him a difficult author for Middle School level students to understand, so this text makes Catiline as concise and...

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...

The first-ever bibliography of Scottish Latin authors in printThe work of the Latin writers of Scotland has suffered a neglect which its variety, copiousness, and intrinsic interest do not deserve. Their importance, and the importance of Latin as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198602774Author James MorwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949822366Author Laura PooleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Catholic Education PressPublisher Catholic Education Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865165786Author Thomas J SienkewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S.Publisher Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S.

Ecclesiastical Latin: A Primer on the Language of the Church offers a thorough introduction to the Latin language in 32 chapters, which can be completed in one academic year. The text presents each section in plain language, fully explaining complicated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865165908Author Marcus Tullius CiceroFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S.Publisher Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647867102Author Oscar Reid EichmannFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint 31 Lessons for LatinPublisher 31 Lessons for LatinWeight(grams) 413g

This school edition of Caesar's Gallic War book VII contains an introduction giving background and context, the Latin text, notes on the text and vocabulary.Book InformationISBN 9781853996320Author Julius CaesarFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint...

The Latin language and literature have been an essential part of Western culture and civilisation for more than two thousand years. An important part of that Latin heritage is Neo-Latin, by which are meant all writings in Latin since the dawn of humanism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896707851Author Linguas ClassicsFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Linguas ClassicsPublisher Linguas ClassicsWeight(grams) 354g

This volume offers the first annotated English translation of the first two books of On Celibacy (1473) by the eminent Venetian humanist Ermolao Barbaro (1454-93); Books 3 and 4 of On Celibacy are presented, along with Barbaro’s On the Duty of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591281122Author Natali MonnetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 588Imprint Canon PressPublisher Canon PressWeight(grams) 1343gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Elegiac Eyes is an in-depth examination of vision and spectacle in Roman love elegy. It approaches vision from the perspective of Roman cultural modes of viewing and locates its analysis in close textual readings of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612335117Author Drew Arlen MannetterFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Brown Walker PressPublisher Brown Walker PressWeight(grams) 989gDimensions(mm)...

This volume addresses the idea of the Baroque in European literature in Latin. With contributions by scholars from various disciplines and countries, and by looking at a range of texts from across Europe, the volume offers case studies to deepen...

Roger Ascham is often classified as ‘a great mid-Tudor humanist’ and he is perhaps best recognised for his role as tutor to Elizabeth I. His most famous works, The Scholemaster and Toxophilus, have been extensively excerpted in studies on prose style and...

This fifth volume in the Litanic Verse series is centered upon the poetics of European litanic verse (genre structure, rhythm, rhetorical figures), as well as its philosophy and cosmology, with a particular focus on the space-time matrix within which the...