Ancient Languages

• Home
  Do you believe that you can define a person by the home they live in and the possessions they surround themselves with? Do the books on their shelves and the paint on their walls give away their personality, and what would you think about someone who lived in a white, minimal space with nothing at ...
• Broken Angels
  For one woman, Nancye O'Reilly, this shocking path of events is real. Such tragedies would have destroyed a lesser woman, but Nancye took control of her life and made some crucial decisions to improve her lot and that of her two remaining sons. As a result of her extraordinary experiences, she is n...
• Classics Transformed
  The first book to give a general account of the transformation of classics in English schools and universities from being the amateur knowledge of the Victorian gentleman to that of the professional scholar, from an elite social marker to a marginalized academic subject. The challenges to the autho...
• Classical Greek Prose
  This handbook contains a classified list, with English equivalents, of 1500 words in common use among classical Greek historians, orators and philosophers. One hundred of these are dealt with at greater length in a supplement, which also focuses on a number of crucial idioms. The aim of the book is...
• A Primer of Biblical Greek
  Though a number of texts for teaching Biblical Greek now exist, most are plagued by various deficiencies that detract from effective instruction within the time limits set by most college and seminary programs. This new primer by N. Clayton Croy offers a succinct, single-volume introduction to Bibl...
• Catiline
• Attic Script
  The aim of this study is to place the inscriptions found on Athenian vases in the context of the early development of writing in Athens from the time of the invention of the alphabet in the eighth century BC to the early fourth, when the local alphabet had been supplanted by the common Ionic script...
• The Acts of the Apostles
  This is a series of commentaries on the New English Bible designed for use in schools and training colleges, and for the layman. It replaces the old Cambridge Bible for Schools. Each volume will comment on one book, or two or three short books, of the Bible, beginning with the New Testament, alread...
• The Ancient Languages of Europe
  This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Europe, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of ...
• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages
  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages is the first comprehensive reference work treating all of the languages of antiquity. Clear and systematic in its approach, the Encyclopedia combines full linguistic coverage of all the well documented ancient languages, representing numer...
• Do-it-yourself Hebrew and Greek
  Do It Yourself Hebrew and Greek is designed for the serious Bible student who wants to discover as accurately as possible what the Bible meant in its original languages but who is not in a position to master those languages. This manual introduces the alphabets and the basic elements of Hebrew and ...
• The Devil Knows Latin
  Whether discussing the importance of Greek and Latin syntax to our society, examining current trends in literary theory, education, and politics, or applying a classical perspective to contemporary films, Christian Kopff is at home and on the mark....
• Grammar of Septuagint Greek
  Not only an indispensable reference resource, Grammar of Septuagint Greek is also an ideal reader for anyone wishing to study the Septuagint in the original language. A reprint of the standard Septuagint grammar originally titled Selections from the Septuagint, this invaluable volume includes: an e...
• Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Greek
  This title clarifies the basics of English grammar and helps readers understand concepts that are specific to New Testament Greek. Each chapter investigates individual concepts, explains how the concept works in English, and then illustrates its use in Greek. Numerous English and Greek examples ill...
• Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods from B.C. 146 to A.D. 1100 Part Two
  1900. Part two of two, this work, laid out in a two-column format, includes a list of authors referred to and an introduction covering the Ionic and Attic dialects, the periods of the Greek language, foreign elements in the language, and grammatical notes. The lexical detail is full and accurate, p...
• Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: S-Z Fascicle 2
• Homeric Grammar
  In 1882, D.B. Munro wrote that "a new Grammar of the Homeric dialect is sorely wanted." Monro's 2nd edition (1891), long out of print, is presented here in full, providing a comprehensive account of Homeric Greek grammar....
• It's Greek to Me
  From Homer's Iliad (bite the dust) to Plato's Phaedo (swan song), this fascinating fun-filled sequel to Brush Up Your Shakespeare! reveals the classical origins of many common English phrases. Macrone is an erudite guide.--San Francisco Chronicle. 40 illustrations....
• The Intellectual Revolution
  The first part of the JACT Greek course is Reading Greek. It consists of two volumes, one of text and one of grammar, vocabulary and exercises and gives the student a thorough introduction to Attic Greek as well as to Herodotus and Homer. A World of Heroes and The Intellectual Revolution are design...
• A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect
• Latin Sentence and Idiom
• Learn Ancient Greek
  Based on the same principles that lay behind the book "Learn Latin," this book provides the chance to read real ancient Greek. It teaches the reader enough Greek in 20 chapters to be able to read selected passages from the New Testament and from Classical Greek literature such as Plato, A...
• Learning Greek with Plato
  This is a step-by-step approach to learning ancient Greek and reading Plato that can be used as a text book on courses or as a handbook for self-teaching. The book's material had been tried and tested over a number of years with adult classes....
• English from the Roots Up
  Phonograph - Discuss the early process of sound recording, before magnetic tape and cassettes, in which a needle cut a recording on a wax plate. Telegraph - Let someone present a research report on Thomas Edison's early days as a telegrapher. Let someone do a report on Morse code and give a demonst...
• Athenaze
  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 ...
• Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek
  This is the first dedicated grammar of Classical Greek for students for almost a century. It provides exceptional clarity, helpfulness, and ease of use for GCSE and A level students, as well as anyone with an interest in Ancient Greek. Generous help with grammatical terms, pronunciation, and diffic...
• An Elementary Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Language in the Hieroglyphic Type 1875
• Greek Grammar
  First published in 1879 and later revised and enlarged, this work contains an introduction to the Greek language and its dialects. It includes five major sections: letters syllables and their accentuation morphology syntax, including multiple examples and the metrics of Greek verse. There is also a...
• Greek to Me
• Greek Vocabulary and Idiom
  Even forty-four years after its first appearance, this little book remains a very useful tool for those studying Ancient Greek at intermediate level. Of particular value for translating verse is Part 1, which contains about 850 words in common use in...
• Indexes to All Editions of Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon and Thayer's Greek Lexicon
• Essential GCSE Latin
  Essential GCSE Latin is neither a complete course from scratch nor a reference grammar, but a summary of all the linguistic requirements for the OCR Examination Board specification (2007 onwards), aimed mainly at pupils in their GCSE year. OCR is now the only board in that offers a GCSE in Latin la...
• A Concise Elementary Grammar of the Sanskrit Language
• The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece: w.Suppt
  This is the only modern work to survey in depth the inscriptions of Greece before 403 BC. Since its first publication in 1961, the body of material available for study has increased substantially, and the size of the Supplement in this reissue is a clear measure of that growth. The new pages are pa...
• Non-Attic Greek Vase Inscriptions
  The inscriptions that accompany the painted scenes on non-Attic Greek vases are an extremely important source for knowledge of ancient Greek, in particular colloquial language and signs of foreign dialect. The corpus of material is made all the more valuable because the inscriptions were painted or...
• Short Guide to the Accentuation of Ancient Greek
  The original aim of this book was to provide an updated reprint of J.P. Postgate's Short Guide to the Accentuation of Ancient Greek (1924). It has developed considerably during the preparation, still including what was most useful in Postgate but now incorporating much additional material and infor...
• Who Killed Homer?
  With straightforward advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, the authors show how we might still save classics and the Greeks for future generations. Who Killed Homer? is must reading for anyone who agrees that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the beauty and perils of our o...
• An Independent Study Guide to Reading Greek: Independent Study Guide
  Reading Greek is the ancient Greek language course produced by the Joint Association of Classical Teachers and published by Cambridge University Press. This Independent Study Guide is intended to help students who are learning Greek on their own or with only limited access to a teacher. It contains...
• Abridged Greek Lexicon
  This abridgement of the world's most authoritative dictionary of ancient Greek is intended chiefly for use in schools. To this end, some of the more specialised words relating to medicine and science have been excluded, whilst words from works of particular relevance to school usage have been retai...
• Athenaze: Workbook 1
  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 c...
• The Decipherment of Linear B
  The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was wri...
• The Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary
  The Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary is a brand new elementary level dictionary, ideal for learners of Classical Greek at school and university level. It covers over 20,000 Greek words and phrases in clear, user-friendly translations, and over 4,000 English words in common usage. The dictio...
• Linear B
  This is a book which details and decyphers the dead language of Linear B. Linear B was one of the earliest written languages and was written by people who spoke proto-Greek, i.e. the language which was later to become Classical Greek. The book lists the symbols, their pronunciation and the meanings...
• Sanskrit Grammar
  As Latin is key to the study of Western classics, so Sanskrit is the language of ancient Indian literature. This guide begins with an introduction to the Sanskrit alphabet, followed by a treatment of the accent -- its changes in combination, inflection, and tone. Succeeding chapters discuss declens...
• Teach Yourself Hieroglyphics
• Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions: Aramaic Inscriptions Including Inscriptions in the Dialect of Zenjirli v.2
• Tradition and Argument in Classical Indian Linguistics
• An Intermediate Greek Lexicon
  This abridgement of the world's most authoritative dictionary of ancient Greek is based on the 1883 revision. It includes some discussion of word usage, citing examples and characteristic phrases. Generally speaking, only words used by late writers and scientific terms have been omitted from the fu...
• Vine's Learn New Testament Greek
  Let the one you've trusted for word studies for years teach you to read the New Testament in Greek! Created by W.E. Vine, the trusted author of the world's most-used expository dictionary, this book is an easy teach yourself course for those who have no previous knowledge of Greek. Designed especia...
• Aramaic (Syriac) Grammar (Volume 1)
  Arayathinal's grammar is among the most comprehensive Syriac grammars ever produced. Designed as a teaching text, this volume is also a solid reference grammar for use by advanced scholars and beginners alike....
• Aramaic (Syriac) Grammar (Volume 2)
  Arayathinal's grammar is among the most comprehensive Syriac grammars ever produced. Designed as a teaching text, this volume is also a solid reference grammar for use by advanced scholars and beginners alike....
• Aramaic (Syriac) Grammar (Volume 3)
  Arayathinal's grammar is among the most comprehensive Syriac grammars ever produced. Designed as a teaching text, this volume is also a solid reference grammar for use by advanced scholars and beginners alike....
• Clue to the Cretan Scripts (1931)
  An attempt to begin the translation of the Minoan script. Includes: Introductory section Phoenician alphabet and its affinities Earliest inscriptions: the formulas for leader, Knossos, Minos, etc. Religious formulas: the Phaestos whorl and the name V...
• Compromising Traditions
  Scholars in modern languages and literatures have enthusiastically embraced the use of the personal voice, the explicitly autobiographical performance within the act of criticism. However on both sides of the Atlantic, venerable traditions of Classical scholarship, among them, unusually rigid taboo...
• Concise History of the Language Sciences
  This book presents in a single volume a comprehensive history of the language sciences, from ancient times through to the twentieth century. While there has been a concentration on those traditions that have the greatest international relevance, a particular effort has been made to go beyond tradit...
• Egyptian Hieroglyphic Reading Book for Beginners (1896)
  The author presents 20 Egyptian texts, nine of which were taken from monuments inscribed with the hieroglyphic character and eleven are transcripts into hieroglyphics from hieratic texts, divided them into words, wrote transliterations of them and ma...
• Egyptian Miracle (1939)
  The restoration of the lost speech of ancient Egypt by supernormal means. It was the author's privilege to record, publish and help translate the most interesting case of xenoglossy, or "speaking in tongues," in history. It is known to students of ps...
• Eros and Ritual in Ancient Literature
  The book examines popular erotic myths with regard to their origins and literary treatment throughout antiquity. The relation of ritual to certain mythic patterns that reflect initiation rites is also considered. The myths are chosen so to form a narrative sequence but also as an example of how myt...
• Etymology and Grammatical Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
• Homeric Greek
  This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages,...
• Latin Momentum Tests for GCSE
  This collection of 15 tests is modelled on those used in GCSE examinations. The first few are at the standard of Foundation Tier and provide appropriate practice for Foundation Tier candidates as well as an easier introduction to the harder tests for Higher Tier candidates. The remaining tests are ...
• Lucian
  This book contains all of Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead, Dialogues of the Sea-Gods, and Dialogues of the Gods, with introduction and explanatory commentary. The Greek text is from the Loeb Classical Library, Volume VII. The Greek sophist and satirist Lucian (ca. A.D. 120-ca. 190) was born in Samos...
• The New Testament is in Greek
  This book focuses on reading the Greek text yet teaches enough syntax to enable students to effectively to deal with texts throughout the New Testament. The grammatical explanations are exceptionally clear and understandable, are based where possible on English usage, and are always related to what...
• Outline Dictionary of Maya Glyphs (1931)
  The dictionary of Maya glyphs includes a concordance and analysis of their relationship. Line drawings of all glyphs are included. Contents: Day signs Month signs Calendric signs Cardinal points: historical review Numerals Colors Face signs Quasi-fac...
• Primer of Greek Grammar
  Introduces Greek grammar. Includes both accidence and syntax....
• Reading Greek: Teacher's Notes: Tchrs'
  The JACT Reading Greek Course has been written for beginners in the upper school, at university and in adult education. Its aim is to enable students to read fifth- and fourth-century Attic Greek, Homer and Herodotus, with some fluency and intelligence in one to two years. The main medium of learni...
• A Sanskrit Grammar
  This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages,...
• A Sumer Aryan Dictionary
  1927. Part I. A-F. An Etymological Lexicon of the English and Other Aryan Languages Ancient and Modern and the Sumerian Origin of Egyptian and its Hieroglyphs. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing....
• Sanskrit Primer (1885)
  Based on the purely practical method of Sanskrit instruction and has been used by a large number of scholars. It has been found that beginners master the first difficulties of Sanskrit very rapidly. Contains 45 simple lessons, a Sanskrit to English d...
• Selected Letters of Cicero
  The collection of Cicero's Letters here reproduced in Latin with an introduction and notes is intended to be as representative as possible of the whole collection which has descended to modern times. The collection is rich in the letters Cicero wrote to the members of his family and friends. A suff...
• Teach Yourself New Testament Greek
• An Introduction to Ancient Greek
• The Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet
  The Hebrew Bible, called the Tenach by Jews and Old Testament by Christians, was originally written in the Hebrew language using an ancient pictographic, or paleo-Hebrew, script. Through the study of this ancient language and script the words of the Bible will come alive to the reader in a way neve...
• Bellum Catilinae
  This is Sallust's text, Bellum Catilinae, in Latin with English introduction and notes....
• Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature
  This work was created by Friedrich Blass, professor of classical philology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, and was continued after his death by Albert Debrunner, professor of Indo-European and classical philology at the University of Bern until his retirement in 1954. The grammar has passed ...
• Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods from B.C. 146 to A.D. 1100 Part One
  1900. Part one of two, this work, laid out in a two-column format, includes a list of authors referred to and an introduction covering the Ionic and Attic dialects, the periods of the Greek language, foreign elements in the language, and grammatical notes. The lexical detail is full and accurate, p...
• Reading Greek
  First published in 1978, Reading Greek has become a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used widely in schools, summer schools and universities across the world. It has...
• Selections
  A tour de force of scholarship and the art of translation, this volume includes a fully integrated set of translations by a single team, a feature enabling Greekless readers to read widely and deeply in Aristotle with continuity, appreciation for his use of technical terminology and for the structu...
• The Greek Language
  This study of the Greek language is divided into two parts. The first is an outline history of the language and the second is a comparative-historical account of the grammar. The chapters in the first part deal with the pre-history (Greek and Indo-European, and the Anatolian languages), the Linear ...
• It Really Is Greek to Me! Greek for Kids (Paperback)
  The Greek language has a long history: it was used at least 10 centuries before the birth of Christ and is still used today! Greek is considered the language of thinkers and poets. It's the language of the first Olympians and architecture. This book introduces Greek's exciting history plus teaches ...
• Nag Hammadi Codices
• Read Greek by Friday
• Reading Greek: Morphology Charts
  These charts provide the basis of the student's own reference grammar in the form of charts covering all the typical verb, noun and adjective types and some 50 irregular verbs. These charts are filled in as the course progresses. The charts are print...
• The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek
  The verb is, in any language, the motor of all communication: no verb, no action. In Greek, verb forms change not only with person, number, tense, and voice, but in four possible moods as well. The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek is an incomparable resource for students and scho...
• Classics & Feminism
  The volumes in this series examine the impact of feminist advocacy, theory, and methodology on the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences....
• Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer
  This text examines the origin of the Greek alphabet and treats the advent of the alphabet script as a point which lies along an unbroken continuum of Greek literacy. Woodard argues that those persons responsible for adapting the Phoenician consonantal script for Greek use were scribes accustomed to...
• The Prosody of Greek Speech
  The reconstruction of the prosody of a dead language is, on the face of it, an almost impossible undertaking. However, once a general theory of prosody has been developed from reliable data in living languages, it is possible to exploit texts as sources of answers to questions that would normally b...
• Ugaritic Narrative Poetry
• Analysing Literary Sumerian
  This book brings together pioneering studies on the world's oldest literature, which was composed before and after 2000 BCE in the extinct language Sumerian. All the contributions are based on the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), a project of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at...
• Reading Latin Poetry Aloud
  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...
• Invitation to the Septuagint
  This comprehensive yet user-friendly primer is useful to those who are just beginning to study the Septuagint. Now in paperback, the book explores the history of the Septuagint, the various versions available, and its importance for biblical studies. Admirably delivers what it promises: it is a cle...
• New Analytical Greek Lexicon
  Since its publication in 1852, George Wigram's "Analytical Greek Lexicon" has gone through a host of revisions and titles as succeeding generations of Greek scholars have sought to improve on it. Unfortunately, none of those revisions fully corrected the troublesome parts that frustrate modern user...
• Linguistics for Students of New Testament Greek
  Introduces Greek students to the field of linguistics and shows how its findings can increase their understanding of the New Testament....
• New Testament Greek Vocabulary
  At Last - this is a unique, convenient, and practical new approach to Building a Strong New Testament Greek Vocabulary. Insert one of these audio CDs into your home system, car player, or portable unit, and down time becomes learning time - with an audio edge. Hearing the Greek properly pronounced ...
• The Ballad Of Desmond Kale
  In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, English gaolers, Irish convicts, and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, one had entured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney into the vast territory claimed, New South Wales. Or so it was believed until the es...
• American Brother, The
  What happens when the war against global terrorism also destroys individual integrity and personal freedom? This is the bold, disturbing theme of Manfred Jurgensen's The American Brother. Harry Greene, although a serious-minded intellectual, finds himself at times in absurdly humorous situations. S...
• Latin Phrase Book
• Four Greek Plays
  Four Greek Plays aims to introduce younger readers for the first time to Greek tragedy through the medium of "Oedipus the King" and "Antigone," and to comedy through Aristophanes' "Acharnians" and "Peace." McLeish produces an adaptation of the plays which is intended to remove many of the immediate...
• Cherry Pie
  Just how much trouble can one girl get into? If it's Simone Kirsch, then it's a lot.The Simone Kirsch Detective Agency - it has a ring about it that Simone loves. And she's willing to bump, grind and shimmy until she has money enough to make it happen. But nothing ever really runs quite to plan for...
• The Greek Dialects
  In the ADVANCED LANGUAGE series, this new edition of the 3rd revised is the standard introduction and reference work on questions of dialect. Its virtues are comparative clarity and conciseness on a subject too often treated, for example by contemporary work in German, with prolixity and obscurity....