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About the Author
Coulter H. George is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. The author of Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek (CUP, 2005) and Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek (CUP, 2014), he has also taught at Rice University and was a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Reviews
The style is light and breezy, and is generally easy to follow, but G. tends to dwell in great depth on highly specialised points. There is something for everyone... * MCCOMAS TAYLOR, The Australian National University, THE CLASSICAL REVIEW *
On the whole, this is an excellent book, and it should prove a very stimulating introduction to ancient languages in general and to comparative linguistics for students and for interested laypersons. The author claims that he wishes to convey enthusiasm for learning the languages discussed in the book, as well as to acquaint students with a certain degree of linguistic diversity, and he masterfully succeeds in doing this. * Audrey Mathys, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
The book takes readers through Greek, Latin, Old English and the Germanic Languages, Sanskrit, Old Irish and the Celtic Languages, and Hebrew, introducing their phonology, morphology, lexicons, grammar, and excerpting passages from texts such as the Iliad, Beowulf, and the Rig Veda, to illustrate how the flavor of a language is always lost a little in translation. * Malcolm Keating, Yale-NUS College, New Books Network *
(...) this is a book about the impossibility or the limits of translation and the awareness of how much is lost when, by changing the language, the expressive resources also have to be altered. * The Euphrosyne, Vol 50 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198852827
Author Coulter H. George
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 468g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 157mm * 17mm