The Tale of the Poor Man of Nippur (State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts, #12)
by Baruch Ottervanger
This is a technical study of Middle Egyptian grammar aimed at enhancing our understanding of tense, mood and aspect; a difficult area of research because, as the author notes, 'we have no informants, since the discovered mummies have so far stubbornly refused to speak and are not expected to change their minds in the future'.
An Homeric Dictionary for Use in Schools and Colleges (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics)
by Georg Autenrieth
The dialect of ancient Greek in which the Homeric epics the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed and later written down is sufficiently different from classical Attic Greek that it has always proven a stumbling block for students. Perceiving the need for a concise dictionary of Homeric Greek forms, German scholar Georg Autenrieth (1833-1900) compiled this now famous work, first published in 1873 and translated into English by Robert P. Keep (1844-1904) in 1877. Keep, who taught Greek at Yale Univ...
Sargonic Texts in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Materials for the Assyrian Dictionary, #5)
by I J Gelb
This volume presents transliterations of texts in the Ashmolean Museum, most of which are from Kish and Umm-el-Jir, near Kish. A few texts of unknown origin have also been included. The majority of these tablets are standard administrative texts such as are found in other great collections of Sargonic texts from Gasur, the Diyala region, Lagash, and Susa. A small but important group of texts consists of contracts or memos concerning contractual agreements. Other types of texts are also represent...
Themistius (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)
Themistius' treatment of "Books 5-8" of Aristotle's "Physics" shows this commentator's capacity to identify, isolate and discuss the core ideas in Aristotle's account of change, his theory of the continuum, and his doctrine of the unmoved mover. His paraphrase offered his ancient students, as they will now offer his modern readers, an opportunity to encounter central features of Aristotle's physical theory, synthesized and epitomized in a manner that has always marked Aristotelian exegesis but w...
Select Letters (Bristol Classical Paperbacks) (Class S.)
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
First published by Macmillan in 1910 and frequently reprinted thereafter, this selection includes the Latin text of Letters 5, 7, 11, 12, 15, 18, 21, 27, 28, 33, 40, 43, 44, 47, 51, 53-57, 63, 76-80, 82, 84, 86-88, 90, 107, 108, 114 and 122. Three introductory chapters trace the history of Latin prose style, comment on Seneca's own language and style, and give an account of Seneca's critics and admirers from ancient times to the twentieth century. The edition includes explanatory English notes o...
Virgil's "Aeneid" (Unwin Critical Library) (Classics Companions)
by Robert Deryck Williams
The Aeneid of Virgil is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. This study by the Virgilian scholar R. Deryck Williams, first published in 1987 and long unavailable, sets the Aeneid in its historical literary background and shows how Virgil related his own world of the newly established Roman Empire to the experience of the past. The poetic qualities of epic are analysed and illustrated by frequent quotations from the Latin, always with prose translations. The book will be appreciated...
Embracing the whole two-thousand-year corpus of Latin poetry, this book seeks to stimulate interest in the neglected art of reading aloud. It establishes a practical working pronunciation for Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Latin by means of a detailed analysis of the essential known facts, and it develops and explains a clear and practical system of phonetic notation, based upon the International Phonetic Alphabet. A substantial number of poems and extracts from all periods is offered for p...
Das Ritual Der Malli Aus Arzawa Gegen Behexung (Texte Der Hethiter, #2)
by Liane Jakob-Rost
Geschichtskonzeptionen Griechischer Historiker Im 2. Und 3. Jahrhundert N. Chr. (Europaische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Europeenn, #84) (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, #84)
by Barbara Kuhn-Chen
Die in diesem Buch behandelten Autoren wurden lange Zeit primar als Quellen fur die roemische Geschichte betrachtet. Dagegen untersucht diese Arbeit die hinter der Darstellung stehenden Geschichtskonzeptionen. Es zeigt sich, dass die Autoren Faktoren, die teils aus der historiographischen Tradition, teils aus zeitgenoessischen Vorstellungen stammen, zu einem jeweils eigenen Geschichtsbild verbinden, dem sie die roemische Geschichte unterwerfen.
Die Theorie Des Geistlichen Lebens in Der "Vita Moysis" Des Gregor Von Nyssa (Europaische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Europeenn, #858) (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, #858)
by Matthias Gran
Gregor von Nyssa verfasst seine Schrift De vita Moysis als ein Leuchtfeuer, mit dem er einem Rat suchenden jungen Christen den Weg in den geborgenen Hafen der Tugend weisen will. An der Biografie der bedeutenden alttestamentlichen Gestalt des Mose orientiert, entfaltet der Nyssener eine Theorie des geistlichen Lebens und stellt seinem Adressaten eine vorbildhafte und zur Nachahmung anregende Lebensform vor Augen. Gregors Theorie beinhaltet mystische und meditative Elemente, wobei das Streben nac...
This volume of the new DSI series is the most comprehensive investigation of Hebrew and Greek translation equivalents in Ps 42-43 in the Psalter and in the Septuagint as a whole currently available. This detailed study does not only include the translation equivalents in the Septuagint, the semantic meanings of the Hebrew and Greek words are also discussed and parallels in the LXX as well as in the Hebrew Bible are included. A systematic investigation of the translator's method must be carried o...
The volume represents the first part of a planned two-volume series. It presents biographical texts from stelae of Dynasties 11-12 in hieroglyphs, transliteration and translation. The texts are arranged by dynasty, and within the two dynasties by provenance. The second volume will contain biographical texts on tomb walls and rocks, as well as detailed commentaries to texts presented in both volumes.
Hellenische Identitat in Der Spatantike (Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Literatur Und Geschichte, #97)
by Jan Stenger
Euripides: Alcestis (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
The theme of Euripides' Alcestis blends the primitive folk-tale of the self-sacrificing bride, Alcestis, and of Heracles' heroic struggles with the ogre Death, with a morality tale of "virtue rewarded", in this case twice rewarded. The Alcestis is the only tragedy which we know to have been produced in the position usually allotted (at the Athenian tragic festivals) to the semi-comic "satyr-play". Like a satyr-play, it has a happy ending but does the poet intend his audience to interpret the pla...