Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Anyone can speak another language! It's all about confidence. Aristotle, Homer, Plato, Sappho, Herodotus and Alexander the Great can't all be wrong in their choice of language - if you've ever come across arcane concepts such as 'democracy', exotic disciplines like 'trigonometry' or a little-known neurosis termed 'the Oedipus complex', then you'll have some inkling of the widespread influence of Greek language and culture. * Never get...
From Biology to Linguistics: The Definition of Arthron in Aristotle's Poetics (UNIPA Springer)
by Patrizia Laspia
This book attempts to solve Aristotle's definition of arthron in the XX chapter of the Poetics by seeing it in a new light. This definition has always been considered an unsolvable problem. Starting with a detailed analysis of the Greek text, and of the various attempts to emend the text in order to make sense of it, the book provides an analytical description of the critical literature, showing that the solutions proposed up to now need to be revised. The possible solution is found in viewing t...
This is an essential accessory for travellers of all ages. The main section of the book consists of phrases and sentences organised in a way which will make it easy for you to select the items which will say what YOU want to say. The pronunciation guide at the start of the book will help you get the general rules and all the words in the book have an anglicised version to help you with the specifics. There are useful everyday phrases which you can use in a variety of situations, followed by sect...
Autenrieth's A Homeric Dictionary has been the companion of countless individuals who have begun the study of Homer. Far and away the hardiest and most helpful of all the aids to the reading of Homeric Greek, it provides the student with a full listing of Homeric forms and concise accounts of the meanings of words.
A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book 2
by Raymond Victor Schoder and Vincent C. Horrigan
Greece in British Women's Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 (Lang Classical Studies, #19)
Greece in British Women's Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 offers a comprehensive overview of British female writing on Greece in the twentieth century and beyond. Contributors cover a vast array of authors: Rose Macaulay, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ann Quin, Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Olivia Manning, Mary Stewart, Victoria Hislop, Loretta Proctor and Sofka Zinovieff formed special ties with Greece and made it the focus of their literary imagination. Moving fr...
Voice and Mood (Essentials of Biblical Greek Grammar)
by David L Mathewson
A recognized expert in Greek grammar examines two features of the Greek verb: voice and mood. Drawing on his years of teaching experience at a leading seminary, David Mathewson examines these two important topics in Greek grammar in light of modern linguistics and offers fresh insights. The book is illustrated with examples from the Greek New Testament, making it an ideal textbook for the intermediate Greek classroom. This is the first volume in a new series on Greek grammar edited by Stanley E....
The book explores the term of "interartistic phenomenon" that Vassilena Kolarova introduces in the semiotic field of intermedial researches. The writer manifests the existence of the interartistic phenomenon which expresses the relation arising between arts at the time of an aesthetic perception of a work of art. Her concept of interartistic phenomenon differs from intertextuality since it affects arts. The semiotic analysis is concentrated on the works of Michel de Montaigne focusing the resear...
Dieser Band Koelner Papyri setzt die Gesamtpublikation der in Koeln aufbewahrten griechischen Papyri und Ostraka fort, die 1976 mit dem von Barbel Kramer und Robert Hubner bearbeiteten ersten Band er- oeffnet worden ist. Wie der erste Band, so enthalt auch der zweite sowohl literarische Texte als auch Urkunden, und zwar insgesamt 67 Nummern. Die Bearbeitung der 23 literarischen Stucke stammt wiederum von Bar- bel Kramer, desgleichen die Sammlung und Neuherausgabe der schon fruher publizierten Ur...
Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, 2/e, provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete classical texts. Carefully designed to hold students' interest, the course begins in Book I with a fictional narrative about an Attic farmer's family placed in a precise historical context (432-431 B.C...
Building Your New Testament Greek Vocabulary
by Robert E.Van Voorst
A Grammar of New Testament Greek (Eerdmans Language Resources)
by Rodney A. Whitacre
A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book 1
by Raymond V. Schoder and Vincent C. Horrigan
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Volume LIV (Graeco-Roman Memoirs, #10) (Graeco-Roman Memorial, #49)
The volume offers a mixture of literary texts (including a commentary on Anacreon) and other documents.
The Tebtunis Papyri (Graeco-Roman Memoirs, #23)
Papyri nos 690-825. (Egypt Exploration Society, Graeco-Roman Memoirs 23, 1933)
A Grammar of New Testament Greek
by James Hope Moulton and Nigel Turner
The Karagiozis Heroic Performance in Greek Shadow Theatre
by Kostas Myrsiades and Linda S Myrsiades
New Testament Greek for Beginners
by J. Gresham Machen, Deceased and Dan G McCartney
For courses in New Testament Greek. This textbook is intended primarily for students who are beginning the study of the Greek Testament without any previous knowledge with the Greek language. This revision retains much of the character and organization of the first edition while accommodating students today who lack an understanding of Latin and grammar necessary for fully comprehending the original edition.