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This classic Greek composition book has been in use thoroughout the world for over 100 years. It remains the standard middle school Grek manual. It features brief lesson overviews followed by English to Greek composition exercises. In the Appendix the student will find useful tables of verb stems, prepositions and particles. The book is suitable for both beginners and intermediate learners.

This classic Latin composition book has been in use throughout the world for over 100 years. It features brief lesson overviews followed by English to Latin composition exercises. All common words and constructions are included.Special vocabularies are given for each exercise in the book, together with rules for the order of words, lists of synonyms and prepositional phrases, and a military and complete general vocabulary.In the Appendix the student will find useful tables of verb stems, prepositions and particles. The book is suitable for both beginners and intermediate learners.

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This book provides the key for teachers using North and Hillard's classic text, Latin Prose Composition, which has been in use throughout the world for over 100 years. The book provides the answers to the English to Latin composition exercises given in the textbook.

This classic textbook consists of a large collection of Latin idioms and phrases organised by topic. Originally published in German as Lateinische Phraseologie, it was translated into English from the sixth German edition with supplementary words and phrases by H.W. Auden.

This has been the standard textbook, covering every sphere of activity known to the Romans, from domestic life to politics, law, religion and warfare. It lists in each category all the main expressions used in classical Latin, and concludes with a 50 page index. An indispensible guide to anyone wishing to...

The key to the classic "Greek Prose Composition" which has been in use throughout the world for over
100 years. It features brief lesson overviews followed by English to Greek composition exercises. In the Appendix the student will find useful tables of verb stems, prepositions and particles. The book is suitable for both beginners and intermediate learners.

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.

Photius was a ninth-century patriarch of Constantinople who compiled summaries of 280 books he had read, known at the Bibliotheca. It deals with Attic, Hellenistic, Roman imperial and Byzantine sources, about half of which are now lost. Here Nigel Wilson presents an annotated edition in translation of a wide selection from these book reviews, with the aim of revealing the breadth of Photius' interests.

L.A. Wilding's Latin Course for Schools is well established as an excellent introduction to the
language, providing details of grammar and syntax in an ordered and easily assimilable sequence. Continuous translation from original sources is used throughout the course from the earliest stages, both in order to give pupils a sense of progress and achievement and to instill a genuine interest in Latin.

L.A Wilding's Latin Course for Schools, published in three parts, is well established as an excellent introduction to the language, providing details of grammar and syntax in an ordered and easily assimilable sequence. Continuous translation from original sources is used throughout the course from the earliest stages, both in order to give pupils a sense of achievment and to instil in them a genuine interest in Latin.

L. A. Wilding's Latin Course for Schools, published in three parts, is well established as an excellent introduction to the language, providing details of grammar and syntax in an ordered and easily assailable sequence. Continuous translation from original sources is used throughout the course from the earliest stages, both in order to give pupils a sense of achievement and to instill in them a genuine interest in Latin.

Sophocles' "Ajax" is one of the most disturbing and powerful surviving ancient tragedies. But it is also difficult to understand and interpret. What are we to make of its protagonist's extremism? Does Ajax deserve the isolation and divine punishment he experiences? Why is his state of mind so difficult to determine? This book offers answers to these and many other questions by drawing together the very latest critical work on the play and introducing the reader to key frames for its interpretation, including Sophoclean heroism, language and form; Homeric intertextuality and Athens'...

This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products of oral poetry. Instead, they regarded them as belonging to a much wider history of the divine cosmos, whose structures and themes are reflected in the resonant patterns of Homer's traditional language and narrative techniques. Part II illustrates this claim by looking at some central...