Corners are bumped. Edgewear to extremities. Front free endpaper has been torn out leaving small strip. Front hinge is weak and cracked but still attached. Foxing throughout with heavy foxing on a few pages. ; 276 pages View More...
Light bump to lower edge of front board, 1 corner and top of spine. Small dent to middle of spine. Very faint stain to textblock. DJ has 1 chip to upper edge, light soiling and a few small scratches. ; This book deals systematically with communication problems in the Roman world where numerous languages apart from Latin and Greek were spoken. How did the Romans communicate with their subjects in the remoter parts of the Empire? What linguistic policies did they pursue? Differing forms of bilingualism developed, which had a significant effect on the way the Romans and their subjects thought, sp... View More...
Inner hinges have some glue stains (as published). Scholar's name to ffep. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; This book deals systematically with communication problems in the Roman world where numerous languages apart from Latin and Greek were spoken. How did the Romans communicate with their subjects in the remoter parts of the Empire? What linguistic policies did they pursue? Differing forms of bilingualism developed, which had a significant effect on the way the Romans and their subjects thought, spoke and wrote. A wide range of cultural, historical and linguistic questions concerning the vary... View More...
Minor creasing and rubbing to wraps. ; M. A. Júnior: Fílon de Alexandria na interpretação das escrituras ? S. Torallas Tovar: La lengua de Fílon de Alejandría en el panorama lingüístico del Egipto romano ? T. Faia: Embaixada a Calígula. Augustina Bessa-Luís e uma memória de Fílon de Alexandria ? R. M. Duarte: Lógos endiáthetos e prophorikós na formação da cristologia patrística ? M. Fernandes: O profetismo no tratado De Iosepho de Fílon de Alexandria ? C. Motta Rios: Exílio, diáspora e saudades de Jerusalém: estudo em Jeremias 29: 1-14 em Fílon de Alexandria? M. Fernandes: Physis no tratado d... View More...
Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). DJ has light edgewear with minor chipping; Reconstructs the pronunciation of Latin in classical times. ; 112 pages View More...
Spine and part of wraps have been crudely reinforced with masking tape while inner hinges have been reinforced with cellotape. Some creasing to wraps. Wraps are browned. Internally VG. ; Greek text with Latin Commentary; 156 pages View More...
Very light shelfwear. ; Looks at the etymology of names in the Roman Republic. ; American Philological Association American Classical Studies Series 3; 9.25 x 0.75 x 6 Inches; 100 pages View More...
Edgewear to corners and spine ends. Spine a bit sunned. ; The purpose of this study is to provide a description of the Greek particle per as it occurs in the text of Homer. As such it is a contribution to the study of Ancient Greek in general and of the Greek' particles in particular. But the work transgresses the boundaries of Greek linguistics' proper. First, the discussion of per as a scalar article contributes to the discussion of scalar phenomena in general. Second, as a description of a linguistic feature in the Iliad and Odyssey, metrical texts of oral-formulaic origin, this study is al... View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. ; The purpose of this study is to provide a description of the Greek particle per as it occurs in the text of Homer. As such it is a contribution to the study of Ancient Greek in general and of the Greek' particles in particular. But the work transgresses the boundaries of Greek linguistics' proper. First, the discussion of per as a scalar article contributes to the discussion of scalar phenomena in general. Second, as a description of a linguistic feature in the Iliad and Odyssey, metrical texts of oral-... View More...
Creasing to corners of corners of wraps. Tears to spine cover and chipping to wraps. Scuffing to wraps. Browning to wraps. ; Abhandlungen Der Sächsischen Akademie Der Wissenschaften Zu Leipzig. Philologisch-Historische Klasse - Band 49, Heft 3; 111 pages View More...
Light foxing to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ is price-clipped. DJ has a bit of chipping. DJ spine faded. ; 296 pages View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Endpapers browned. Stamp of "Department of Classical and oriental languages" stamped to ffep (no other markings). ; 97 pages View More...
1 corner bumped. Else very minor shelfwear. DJ is price-clipped with minor shelfwear. ; x, 284pp, illustrated. Contributors include Chadwick, Lang, Levin, C. Gordon, Blegen, et al.; 284 pages View More...
1 corner lightly bumped. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Bookplate to ffep. DJ is browned with some small tears. ; x, 284pp, illustrated. Contributors include Chadwick, Lang, Levin, C. Gordon, Blegen, et al.; 284 pages View More...
Tears to backstrip. Mild dampstaining to wraps. Creasing to corners of wraps. Else VG. ; Collection Linguistique De La Société De Linguistique De Paris; 224 pages View More...
Spine browned. Pages tannned. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Spine ends have been reinforced with cellotape (now yellowed). Minor creasing to wraps. Else VG. ; Collection Linguistique De La Société De Linguistique De Paris; 224 pages View More...
Light soiling and rubbing to wraps. Light bump to top corners with mild creasing. ; Contents: Enallage: is ther such a thing? The origin of Enallage; Evidence for Enallage as Archaism; Enalage in Pindar and the Tragedians. Appendixes...; Mnemosyne , Vol Suppl. 29; 81 pages View More...
Minor shelfwear. Light foxing to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Signed by author to G. P. Goold on ffep. ; Aims at finding the precise limits and rationale, whether aesthetic or semantic, of certain syntactical phenomena in classical Greek poetry. ; Yale Classical Monographs 5; 220 pages; Signed by Author View More...
Former owner's signature on fly-page. Book has moderate soiling and staining to boards. Spine is discoloured. Pages are clean of any other marks. ; This dictionary contains about 5000 entries, many of which include additional compounded forms. ; 87 pages View More...
Rear upper corner of wraps is creased. . Very light browning to wraps. ; The authors show the close relationships between the Cretan Pictographic and Linear A scripts and their counterparts in Syro-Palestine, the signary of the Phaistos Disc and that of the Luwian hieroglyphic script in Anatolia, and the Cyprian scripts and their equivalent from Ugarit. A pioneer work in the deciphering of ancient languages. ; Publications from the Henri Frankfort Foundation Volume Nine [9]; 131 pages View More...
Light shelfwear; 0.84 x 9.68 x 6.38 Inches; This well-illustrated volume provides the best collection of Etruscan inscriptions and texts currently in print. A substantial archeological introduction sets language and inscriptions in their historical, geographical, and cultural context. Overview of Etruscan grammar, the glossary, and chapters on mythological figures View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Light shelfwear to DJ. ; 0.84 x 9.68 x 6.38 Inches; 174 pages; This well-illustrated volume provides the best collection of Etruscan inscriptions and texts currently in print. A substantial archeological introduction sets language and inscriptions in their historical, geographical, and cultural context. Overview of Etruscan grammar, the glossary, and chapters on mythological figures View More...
Book is fine. DJ has very light shelfwear else fine.. ; While the study of the history of rhetoric has expanded to include an ever-growing range of rhetorical traditions, lesser-known figures, and under- and un-studied texts, it has continued to exist in the hermetically sealed binary of West and Rest. Rhetorical scholars have begun uncovering the many marginalized rhetorical traditions silenced by the homogenous nature of our histories themselves, reading and writing new histories of the rhetorical tradition through frames from gender to geography. Despite these substantial challenges to the ... View More...
Upper corners very lightly bumped. Signed by Julius Moravcsik (one of the contributors) on titlepage. Else Fine. ; Xvi, 387pp. This volume is a collection of original contributions that address the problem of words and their meaning. This represents a still difficult and controversial area within various disciplines: linguistics, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. Although all of these disciplines have to tackle the issue, so far there is no overarching methodology agreed upon by researchers. The aim of the volume is to provide answers based on empirical linguistics methods that are rele... View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). A bit of creasing to wraps. Small stain to front wrap. ; This handbook offers a synopsis of the regular changes that Latin words underwent in the course of their evolution into modern Romance languages (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French, with their English cognates). Although it is intended for the nonspecialist, students of Romance philology will find it useful as a ready reference and as a source of abundant examples of Latin sound changes. ; 177 pages View More...
Former owner's name on ffep. Minor shelfwear. ; This handbook offers a synopsis of the regular changes that Latin words underwent in the course of their evolution into modern Romance languages (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French, with their English cognates). Although it is intended for the nonspecialist, students of Romance philology will find it useful as a ready reference and as a source of abundant examples of Latin sound changes. ; 177 pages View More...
Minor shelfwear to book. Scholar's name to ffep (Raymond). Remnants of label to ffep. ; To speakers of modern Greek the Homeric poems of the 7th century BC are not written in a foreign language. The Greek language has enjoyed a continuous tradition from earliest times until now. This book traces its history from the immediately post-classical or Hellenistic period to the present day. The aim is both to analyse the changing structure of a language stabilised by a peculiarly long and continuous literary tradition, and to show how changing historical circumstances are reflected in its development... View More...
Foreedge of front wrap is a bit creased. ; From Alpha to Omega is a Classical Greek grammar textbook of fifty lessons with readings beginning with Aesop. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 142 pages View More...
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Light bumping to upper corners. Boards a bit rubbed. ; 241 pages View More...
