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  • Selected Dialoguesby Lucian; C. D. N. Costa

    OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 8.99

    you'll find another man to harvest, Glycerion: let this one go'The Greek satirist Lucian was a brilliantly entertaining writer who invented the comic dialogue as a vehicle for satiric comment. His influence was immense, not only in the Greek world, but on later European writers such as Rabelais and Swift. His dialogues puncture the pretensions... more...

  • Ancient Greek Accentuationby Philomen Probert

    OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 198.99

    The accent of many Greek words has long been considered arbitrary, but Philomen Probert points to some striking correlations between accentuation and a word's synchronic morphological transparency, and between accentuation and word frequency, that give clues to the prehistory of the accent system. Bringing together comparative evidence for the... more...

  • Entering the Agonby Elton T. E. Barker

    OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 54.99

    This book investigates one of the most characteristic and prominent features of ancient Greek literature - the scene of debate or agon, in which with varying degrees of formality characters square up to each other and engage in a contest of words. Drawing on six case studies of different kinds of narrative - epic, historiography and tragedy - and authors... more...

  • Constituent Syntax: Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphoraby

    De Gruyter 2010; US$ 210.00

    New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Constituent Syntax (Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphora) is the third of four volumes dealing with the long-term evolution of Latin syntax, roughly from the 4th century BCE up to the 6th century CE. Essentially an extension of Volume 2, Volume 3 concentrates on additional subsentential syntactic... more...

  • Millennium (2010) by

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2010; US$ 127.00

    Millennium pursues an interdisciplinary international approach transcending epochal boundaries to research the First Millennium AD. The editorial board and the advisory board represent a wide range of disciplines ? contributions from art and literary studies are published alongside historical, theological and philosophical contributions on the Latin,... more...

  • Handbuch der griechischen Literatur der Antike Bd. 1: Die Literatur der archaischen und klassischen Zeitby Bernhard Zimmermann; Anne Schlichtmann

    C.H. Beck 2011; US$ 128.80

    Hauptbeschreibung Seitdem die Geschichte der griechischen Literatur von Wilhelm Schmid und Otto Stählin im Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft zwischen 1929 und 1948 erschienen ist, kam mancher Neufund antiker Texte hinzu: Komödien Menanders, Bruchstücke der frühen Lyrik und der vorsokratischen Philosophie. Dadurch wurde unsere Kenntnis der griechischen... more...

  • Annus Horribilisby Mark Walker

    The History Press 2010; US$ 13.11

    These are just a few of the topics covered in this book. As Mark Walker makes clear, present-day English is still steeped in its Roman and Latin origins. As a result English still has many thousands of Latin words in everyday use. more...

  • Cassell's Latin Dictionaryby D.P. Simpson

    Continuum International Publishing 2000; US$ 110.00

    This edition Incorporates modern English idiom and current Latin spelling. Includes general classical information where appropriate. Shows long and short vowels where not immediately apparent. Indicates irregular plural forms. Cites and quotes ancient classical authors.Suggests paraphrases to express modern English in classical Latin form. more...

  • Discourse Analysis and Other Topics in Biblical Greekby Stanley E. Porter; D.A. Carson

    Continuum International Publishing 1995; US$ 100.00

    This collection brings together into one volume papers first delivered in the Section on Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meetings in 1992 and 1993. Part I, on discourse analysis, includes an introductory survey of the field, followed by three major papers and two responses. Each author uses his particular... more...

  • Sanctius' Theory of Languageby Manuel Breva-Claramonte

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1982; US$ 180.00

    This volume presents the main tenets of Sanctius? linguistic theory and explores the questions raised by Robin Lakoff in her 1969 review of the Grammaire générale et raisonnée (Port Royal) . Part I surveys earlier developments in the study of language, in particular the Graeco-Roman and Medieval traditions, the Renaissance period, and Judaeo-Arabic... more...