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This is part one of a four-part prose reading course designed for beginners in Greek and other learners wishing to consolidate their reading skills. Particular attention is paid to idiomatic usage...

This is part three of a four-unit prose reading course designed for beginners in Greek and other learners wishing to consolidate their reading skills. Particular attention is paid to idiomatic usage...

This is part four of a four-unit prose reading course designed for beginners in Greek and other learners wishing to consolidate their reading skills. Particular attention is paid to idiomatic usage...

The Acts of the Apostles is one of the very few surviving ancient texts to give us a picture of the world from the point of view of those outside the elite of the dominant culture. It offers a...

Acts of the Apostles: Passages for TranslationAuthor: T. J. LearyPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1998Number of Pages: 104 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

"Advanced Latin" offers a range of material to help students build and develop the knowledge and skills needed for A2 and Pre-U Latin. There are 24 translation/comprehension exercises, based on...

Advanced Level Latin Prose CompositionAuthor: A. H. Nash- WilliamsPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Jun 01, 1991Number of Pages: 164 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

50 years before Philoponus, two Christians from Gaza, seeking to influence Alexandrian Christians, defended the Christian belief in resurrection and the finite duration of the world, and attacked...

The Persians (Persae) is Aeschylus' first surviving play. Unlike all other surviving Greek tragedies, which deal with persons and events from the remote, mythical past, it is about living persons and...

Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire. In his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical...

Alcidamas is an important figure in the development of Greek rhetoric early in the fourth century BC. Pupil of Gorgias, rival of Isocrates, and teacher of Aeschines, he also influenced Demosthenes...

Pushkin is often overshadowed by later Russian writers whose works have achieved more extensive critical acclaim. Yet he is deservedly regarded as Russia's foremost poet and holds a unique place in...

An Introduction to New Testament Greek: A Quick Course in the Reading of Koine GreekAuthor: Frank BeethamPublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1998Number of Pages: 388...

An Introduction to PolishAuthor: Gerald StonePublisher: Bristol Classical PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1998Number of Pages: 110 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1853993301ISBN-13:...

The Phoenicians played a fundamental role in shaping the history of the Mediterranean. Lauded by Homer as unrivalled navigators and traders, they are known to have founded colonies across the length...

Since its publication in 1913, Alcools has acquired classic status as a major landmark not only in French poetry but in the wider contexts of modern European literature.An indispensable text for an...

This Spanish text is useful for teaching Peruvian, Latin American literature and cultural history at university level. It could also be read at upper sixth-form level as the plot is uncomplicated and...

Aristophanes, the Athenian comic dramatist, remains popular despite historical changes in attitude and belief. Placing the plays in their total civic, religious and dramatic context, this account...

This companion to Alan Sommerstein's Penguin translation of Aristophanes' Clouds Acharnians and Lysistrata is intended for the Greekless reader. An informative introduction is followed by sections of...

This volume contains the Greek text "Periplus Ponti Euxini", with a full introduction, commentary and facing-page translation. Arrian, the Roman senator, is known as a philosopher and the historian...

This text aims to overturn the frequent dismissal of Roman art as 'mosaics and uninspiring copies of Greek sculpture'. In place of the usual historical outline approach, this book looks at the...

Athens has long been famed as the birthplace of democracy. But who actually had the power in Ancient Athens? And was the democracy an unqualified success? Tracing the development of democracy from...

This history of Athenian democracy covers the period 403-322 BC, and focuses in particular on the crucial last thirty years which coincided with the political career of Demosthenes and ended with his...

Athens and Sparta were the two leading powers in the Classical Greek world. They represented entirely different systems of social organization: oligarchic conservatism at Sparta versus radical...

This introductory book in the Classical World series, aimed at late school and early university students, focuses on the colourful period of the Peisistratid tyranny in Athens. During these exciting...

The athletic competitions that took place during festivals like that at Olympia, or within the confines of city gymnasia, were a key feature of life in ancient Greece. From the commemoration of...

This concise and informative introduction to the Attic orators, a volume in the well established Classical World series, is aimed at the late school and undergraduate student. It includes valuable...

Georg B?chner is regularly considered the father of modern German drama, and "Woyzeck"was his most influential work. Beneath the utter simplicity of itsbasic story, there are complex themes of human...

The victory poems of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides are here presented in a fresh new translation, together with an introduction and commentary. The translation captures the tone of the original,...

Natal'ya Baranskaya achieved instant fame with the controversial publication in 1969 of A Week Like Any Other.The story, remarkable for its lack of tendentiousness, presents a uniquely honest picture...