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DER NEUE GEORGES
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2013; US$ 107.84Hauptbeschreibung Der ?Georges? ist seit Jahrzehnten ein unentbehrliches Arbeitsmittel für alle, die sich intensiv mit dem klassischen Latein beschäftigen. Das Handwörterbuch erschließt den großen Reichtum der lateinischen Sprache mit mehr als 62.000 Hauptstichwörtern, 200.000 Bedeutungsvarianten und etwa 300.000 Belegstellen. Für viele heutige Benutzer... more...
GREEK: AN ESSENTIAL GRAMMAR
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 47.95Greek: An Essential Grammar of the Modern Language is a concise and user-friendly reference guide to the most important aspects of modern Greek. It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language in short, readable sections. Explanations are clear and supported by examples throughout. The Grammar is ideal for learners of all levels... more...
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
The Floating Press 1920; US$ 3.95The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is the first play in The Trilogy of the Oresteia , which deals with the eternal problem of the evil act causing vengeance which wreaks more evil which must be avenged. Aeschylus declares that the new ruler in heaven, Zeus, heralds the end of this cycle and the beginning of hope. Zeus has suffered and sinned and grown wise,... more...
Apocolocyntosis
The Floating Press 1920; US$ 4.99Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist, who also acted as a tutor and adviser to emperor Nero. Attributed to Seneca is this political satire on the Roman emperor Claudius, Apocolocyntosis or The Pumpkinification of Claudius . The title, meaning "Pumpkinification"... more...
The Praise of Folly
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 3.99Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week at Sir Thomas More's estate in Bucklersbury. He later refined and extended the piece. In it he personifies Folly as a god, whose companions are likewise-personified sins and human weaknesses. His work criticizes the Catholic Church, and culminates in a statement of Christian... more...
Lateinische Dialoge 1200-1400
BRILL 2007; US$ 216.00In this monograph the dialogue production between 1200 and 1400 is presented in a detailed repertory. Building on this material, the author describes four genres of dialogue (didactic, polemical, introspective and philosophical dialogues), locating them in the literary tradition. more...
Haftung für fehlerhafte Ratings
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2010; US$ 30.84Hauptbeschreibung Ratings beeinflussen die Entscheidungen von Anlegern und Investoren und bestimmen die Zinsen für Kredite und Anleihen. Für Unternehmen und Anleger kann ein schlechtes oder ein zu gutes Rating enorme Auswirkungen haben. Haften Ratingagenturen und Banken für fehlerhafte Ratings? Der Fall "Rating" ist in der Praxis noch nicht erprobt.... more...
Grammaticalization
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 158.00In this monograph, various aspects of the morphosyntactic evolution of the Romance languages are shown to interact in a theory of grammaticalization. The study argues for the incorporation and subordination of inflectional morphology within a grammaticalization continuum, constituting but a portion of the latter. Parameters of natural morphology are... more...
New Studies in Latin Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1990; US$ 267.00The 29 papers in this volume cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from the Glottalic Theory and Lachmann's Law to the hermeneutic analysis of text-structure in Tacitus' Germania. The volume focuses on three themes specifically: the morphology and semantics of lexical formation; the internal and external syntax of the noun phrase; and the pragmatics... more...
From Indo-European to Latin
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1993; US$ 165.00This study aims to describe the typological characteristics of the original Indo-European structure, called the derivative-flectional stage (or (sub)type), and to trace its developments to the paradigmatically organized structure of the individual Indo-European languages, called the paradigmatic-flectional stage (or (sub)type). This development is... more...









