Greek and Latin Letters

2003-03-06
Greek and Latin Letters

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  • Author: Michael Trapp
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521499439
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 364

The 78 letters in this Anthology (41 Greek, 36 Latin and 1 bilingual, with facing English translation) are selected both for their intrinsic interest, and to illustrate the range of functions letters performed in the ancient world. Dating from between c. 500 BC and c. 400 AD, they include naive and high-style, 'real' and 'fictitious', and classical and patristic items: Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Seneca, Pliny, Julian, Basil and Augustine are juxtaposed with Phalaris, Diogenes, Chion, and the authors of letters on lead, wood, papyrus and stone. Four final items exemplify ancient epistolary theory. The Commentary, besides providing contextual and linguistic assistance, draws attention to specifically epistolary features and to different stylistic levels of Greek and Latin represented. Epistolary topics and formulae are discussed in the Introduction, which also provides biographical and bibliographical information on all texts and authors included, and a history of letter-writing and letter-reading in antiquity.

Greek and Latin Letters

2003-03-06
Greek and Latin Letters

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  • Author: Michael Trapp
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 368

The 78 letters in this Anthology (41 Greek, 36 Latin and 1 bilingual, with facing English translation) are selected both for their intrinsic interest, and to illustrate the range of functions letters performed in the ancient world. Dating from between c. 500 BC and c. 400 AD, they include naive and high-style, 'real' and 'fictitious', and classical and patristic items: Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Seneca, Pliny, Julian, Basil and Augustine are juxtaposed with Phalaris, Diogenes, Chion, and the authors of letters on lead, wood, papyrus and stone. Four final items exemplify ancient epistolary theory. The Commentary, besides providing contextual and linguistic assistance, draws attention to specifically epistolary features and to different stylistic levels of Greek and Latin represented. Epistolary topics and formulae are discussed in the Introduction, which also provides biographical and bibliographical information on all texts and authors included, and a history of letter-writing and letter-reading in antiquity.

Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity

2020-09-10
Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity

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  • Author: Pauline Allen
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1316510131
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 199

Introduction to the nature, function, production and dissemination of Late Antique literary letters and their importance for their society.

Ancient Greek Literary Letters

2006-09-27
Ancient Greek Literary Letters

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  • Author: Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134451059
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 178

Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 CLASSICAL GREEK LITERARY LETTERS -- chapter 2 HELLENISTIC LITERARY LETTERS -- chapter 3 Letters and prose fictions of the Second Sophistic -- chapter 4 THE EPISTOLARY NOVELLA -- chapter 5 PSEUDO-HISTORICAL LETTER COLLECTIONS OF THE SECOND SOPHISTIC -- chapter 6 INVENTED CORRESPONDENCES, IMAGINARY VOICES.

Alpha to Omega

1983
Alpha to Omega

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  • Author: Alexander Humez
  • Publisher: David R Godine Pub
  • ISBN: 9781567921014
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 203

In the first offering of this beloved duo, the Humez brothers take on the twenty-four letters of the Greek alphabet (plus those elusive "dead letters"), and through the device of the abecedarium bring the Greek culture and thought to life. From acoustics to zygote, they provide not only an engaging romp through the Greek language but also a series of glimpses into the world and man's place in it. The historical, philosophical, mathematical, cosmological, and political (all Greek words) approaches we take toward life, its description, elucidation, and evaluation, are all mainly derived from several thousand years of Greek culture. The vocabulary of language is a mirror of the minds of its speakers, and in this book we see the first reflections of the modern world.

A School Grammar of Attic Greek

1903
A School Grammar of Attic Greek

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  • Author: Thomas Dwight Goodell
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Greek language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 360

New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin

2008-11-13
New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin

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  • Author: Andrew L Sihler
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199706425
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 711

Like Carl Darling Buck's Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), this book is an explanation of the similarities and differences between Greek and Latin morphology and lexicon through an account of their prehistory. It also aims to discuss the principal features of Indo-European linguistics. Greek and Latin are studied as a pair for cultural reasons only; as languages, they have little in common apart from their Indo-European heritage. Thus the only way to treat the historical bases for their development is to begin with Proto-Indo-European. The only way to make a reconstructed language like Proto-Indo-European intelligible and intellectually defensible is to present at least some of the basis for reconstructing its features and, in the process, to discuss reasoning and methodology of reconstruction (including a weighing of alternative reconstructions). The result is a compendious handbook of Indo-European phonology and morphology, and a vade mecum of Indo-European linguistics--the focus always remaining on Greek and Latin. The non-classical sources for historical discussion are mainly Vedic Sanskrit, Hittite, and Germanic, with occasional but crucial contributions from Old Irish, Avestan, Baltic, and Slavic.

Greek Letters

1996
Greek Letters

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  • Author: Michael S. Macrakis
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Design
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 368

Written by some of the foremost typographic and book history scholars in the world such as Hermann Zapf, Nicolas Barker, and Nicolas Panayotakis, these essays bring to life the rich history and development of the Greek letter form: its role in the history of the printed word and civilization, the urgent need for quality modern fonts, and the challenges faced by the current and future realm of Greek type design. In response to these challenges, the Greek Font Society formed in 1992 to promote and design quality Greek fonts for printing and use on the computer screen. The Society also gathered some of the most respected professionals, designers, and scholars at the first International Symposium on the Evolution of the Greek Alphabet and published the papers presented on these topics, now contained in this volume, Greek Letters.

Alpha Beta

2010-10-31
Alpha Beta

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  • Author: John Man
  • Publisher: Random House
  • ISBN: 1409045331
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 338

The idea behind the alphabet - that language with all its wealth of meaning can be recorded with a few meaningless signs - is an extraordinary one. So extraordinary, in fact, that it has occurred only once in human history: in Egypt about 4000 years ago. Alpha Beta follows the emergence of the western alphabet as it evolved into its present form, contributing vital elements to our sense of identity along the way. The Israelites used it to define their God, the Greeks to capture their myths, the Romans to display their power. And today, it seems on the verge of yet another expansion through the internet. Tracking the alphabet as it leaps from culture to culture, John Man weaves discoveries, mysteries and controversies into a story of fundamental historical significance.

Greek Letters and the Latin Middle Ages

1988
Greek Letters and the Latin Middle Ages

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  • Author: Walter Berschin
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 440