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Fit every pocket -- and every traveler's need for a compact, easy-to-use, and dependable reference source.Part language instructor, part tour guide, the world-renowned Berlitz Phrase Book series has been the ideal companion guide for millions of travelers worldwide. Providing a wealth of essential information and practical tips, this popular series, redesigned and with updated phrases and expressions and over 2,300 words covering just about any situation a traveler is likely to encounter, remain...

This is an exciting and original study on the poetic significance of formal repetition in Homer. The author argues that localization, metre, and verse-structure are regularly used as semantic markers, providing certain words with a "meaning" that extends beyond their immediate context. This meaning often interacts with context-specific semantic features, creating a discourse that is replete with ambiguity, ambivalence, irony, and allusion. The discussion draws on recent approaches in linguist...

For the ancient Greeks and Romans, eloquence was essential to public life and identity, perpetuating class status and power. The three-tiered study of rhetoric was thus designed to produce sons worthy of and equipped for public service. Rhetorical competency enabled the elite to occupy their proper place in society. The oracular and literary techniques represented in Greco-Roman education proved to be equally central to the formation of the New Testament. Detailed comparisons of the sophisticate...

A perfect handbook for beginners, Outline of Greek Accidence clearly lays out the elements of Greek grammar in tabular form. All the essentials are included, from the declensions of nouns and adjectives to numerals, adverbs, the conjugations of verbs and the uses of prepositions. It is a perfect handbook for beginners.

Elementary Greek Translation was designed to accompany the same authors' Elementary Greek Exercises, so that the two books could conveniently be used together and translation be learned as well as composition. The book outlines essential grammar, so that the reader can begin translating from the start. After the initial exercises, the pieces form a continuous series covering the chief events of Athenian history down to 400 BC.

This traditional Greek prose composition textbook for schools was first published in the nineteenth century and has rarely been out of print. As well as clear explanations and exercises it also contains useful tables of particles and prepositions at the end, as well as an English-Greek glossary.

This abridged version of the author's book "Greek Metre" will provide students with a more easily approachable and digestible introduction to the subject. The explanations of basic matters have been simplified, and additional examples have been included to illustrate the commoner metres. Readership: school and university classics teachers and students.

Berlitz Greek Phrasebook and Dictionary with a free app This clear, compact phrase book for travellers is packed with key words and phrases to help conversation. The pocket-sized Greek phrasebook and dictionary from Berlitz's language experts (with free app) is a trusty travel companion. It's all you need to make yourself understood - and to understand others - when you're out and about in Greece.- Over 8,000 words and phrases: communicate with ease in every situation- Colour-coded sections orga...

This volume contains classical Greek texts with English preliminaries.

Papyri nos 3777-3821. (Egypt Exploration Society, Graeco-Roman Memoirs 75, 1988)

Revenants, oracular heads, hermaphrodites, sex-changers, human-animal children, multiple pregnancies, births, body features ... This is just a sample of subjects that Phlegon of Tralles explored in the 2nd century AD in his "Mirabilia". This study identifies the common motifs of Phlegon's text and determines his criterion of selection: using the cultural category of "monster", it argues that Phlegon exclusively collected stories of either hybrid creatures or human "record-breakers" with respect...

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon of artistic dialogue with ancient myths. The contributions assume a double-track research approach. The contributors investigate the procedure of myths' recycling within Greco-Roman antiquity, and they consider modern re-occupations of myths in dramatic literature and theatre. Providing various examples of myths' reception from antiquity to present days, this book confirms the persistent human need of re-mythization.

Praise for A Grammar of New Testament Greek: "The most comprehensive account of the language of the New Testament ever produced by British scholars." --The Expository Times

This book is also available as a set, together with Volume I. Please visit www.peterlang.com/view/product/84550 Patterns of Patronage in Renaissance Rome is the first full-length study of the life and works of Francesco Sperulo of Camerino (1463-1531). In a remarkable career during which the poet progressed from serving as a soldier of fortune in the service of Cesare Borgia to an Italian bishopric, Sperulo produced a significant body of Latin poetry, here presented in a critical edition for th...

With its completely redesigned interior making the book even more accessible than before, the Berlitz Greek Phrase Book is ideal for travellers of all ages who are looking for a reliable and up-to-date phrase book that contains all the phrases they really need when they are in Greece. The new and improved content has a more visually appealing colour-coding system, enabling users to find what they want, when they want it, and in less time. The book also provides simplified phonetics to ensure tha...

Includes insider's tips on local customs, etiquette and all things Greek; signs and essentials in Greek script for fast recognition; plenty of conversation topics, with a focus on cuisine and getting to know people; an index and headings in Greek script allowing easy two-way conversations; and a two-way dictionary.

This pack - containing a Gem Phrase Book and CD - provides the opportunity to hear and practise the language. The phrases are kept short and simple so that by listening two or three times, you can pick up the essentials of the Greek language Collins Gem Phrase Books are designed for ease of use, with practical, flexible phrases that can be adapted to suit the needs of the traveller. But often, it's not the question that's the problem, it's the reply. The CD which accompanies the Gem Ph...