Greek and Latin Letters

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 in Late Antiquity

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.


Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity

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  • Author: Stanley K. Stowers
  • Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
  • ISBN: 9780664250157
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 196

Making use of letters--both formal and personal--that have been preserved through the ages, Stanley Stowers analyzes the cultural setting within which Christianity arose. The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament developed.


Greek Letters and the Latin Middle Ages

Greek Letters and the Latin Middle Ages

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  • Author: Walter Berschin
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Civilization, Medieval
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 440


The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric

The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric

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  • Author: David Edward Aune
  • Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
  • ISBN: 9780664219178
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 620

The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric details the variety of literary and rhetorical forms found in the New Testament and in the literature of the early Christian church. This authoritative reference source is a treasury for understanding the methods employed by New Testament and early Christian writers. Aune's extensive study will be of immense value to scholars and all those interested in the ways literary and rhetorical forms were used and how they functioned in the early Christian world. This unique and encyclopedic study will serve generations of scholars and students by illuminating the ways words shaped the consciousness of those who encountered Christian teachings.


Greek Letters

Greek Letters

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  • Author: Michael S. Macrakis
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  • 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.


Pronounciation of Greek and Latin

Pronounciation of Greek and Latin

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  • Author: Nehemiah Wisner Benedict
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  • Category : Greek language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 16


Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook

Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook

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  • Author: Andrew N. Sherwood
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134926200
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 652

In this volume the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient authors to provide a history and an analysis of the origins and development of technology. Among the topics covered are: * energy * basic mechanical devices * agriculture * food processing and diet * mining and metallurgy * construction and hydraulic engineering * household industry * transport and trade * military technology. The sourcebook presents 150 ancient authors and a diverse range of literary genres, such as, the encyclopedic Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder, the poetry of Homer and Hesiod, the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle and Lucretius and the agricultural treatise of Varro. Humphrey, Oleson and Sherwood provide a comprehensive and accessible collection of rich and varied sources to illustrate and elucidate the beginnings of technology. Glossaries of technological terminology, indices of authors and subjects, introductions outlining the general significance of the evidence, notes to explain the specific details, and a recent bibliography make this volume a valuable research and teaching tool.


Salutatio Formulas in Latin Letters to 1200

Salutatio Formulas in Latin Letters to 1200

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  • Author: Carol Lanham
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1725212609
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 164

Jusqu'a maintenant, l'intitulatio et l'inscriptio avaient ete suffisamment etudiees, mais la salutatio restait relativement negligee. Cette lacune est aujourd'hui en partie comblee. C. D. Lanham a l'art de situer la question qu'elle traite dans le cadre plus vaste des regles du style epistolaire; elle ouvre des apercus interessants sur certains aspects de l'education medievale, et ne manque pas de signaler des problemes qui meriteraient l'attention des chercheurs. Revue des etudes latines (1977) Ms. Lanham's study has the great merit first of all of reflecting her own eager interest in pursuing such an apparently narrow theme. Her enthusiasm even leads her to conclude with a postscript suggesting further research. [Lanham is] obviously a born medievalist. Her work has the further merit of providing us fully and reliably with the means necessary to enable us to make our own interpretations and reach our own conclusions. It is well organized; the problems...are clearly stated at the outset, and every promise is fulfilled. She starts with the obligatory rapid survey of classical usage, both Greek and Latin, then passes to a detailed and skillful analysis of the various types of conventional epistolary formulas that developed from it in the Middle Ages. This is clearly not a work that can be summarized; suffice it to say that the transition...is indeed a wondrous one, and every step of the way is here clearly illuminated. The Classical Journal (1977) Das Buch der Schulerin von Bengt Lofstedt ist ein bedeutender Beitrag fur die Erforschung der Epistolographie des Mittelalters, ausgezeichnet durch die absolute Neuartigkeit der Untersuchung bei nur minimalen und sporadischen bisherigen Beitragen; die Untersuchung ist gleichzeitig ein Musterbeispiel fur wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im Hinblick auf die sorgfaltig genaue dokumentarische und bibliographische Information, die methodische Strenge und Vorsicht, die bei einem so stark formalisierten und daher willkurlichen Manipulationen ausgesetzten Bereich nichts zulasst, was nicht eindeutig belegt werden kann, und ebenso hinsichtlich der reichen und treffenden Ergebnisse, die des ofteren uber den Ausgangspunkt der Arbeit hinausgehen und Auswirkungen haben fur einen viel umfassenderen Bereich der mal. Kultur. Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch (1979)


The Alphabet

The Alphabet

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  • Author: Thomas Hewitt Key
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Alphabet
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 222