Greek and Latin Letters
Title | Greek and Latin Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Trapp |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2003-03-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521499439 |
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
Title | Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Pauline Allen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2020-09-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316510131 |
Introduction to the nature, function, production and dissemination of Late Antique literary letters and their importance for their society.
Alpha to Omega
Title | Alpha to Omega PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Humez |
Publisher | David R Godine Pub |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781567921014 |
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.
Ancient Greek Literary Letters
Title | Ancient Greek Literary Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia A. Rosenmeyer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2006-09-27 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1134451059 |
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.
Greek Letters and the Latin Middle Ages
Title | Greek Letters and the Latin Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Berschin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Basics of Biblical Greek Video Lectures
Title | Basics of Biblical Greek Video Lectures PDF eBook |
Author | William D. Mounce |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2013-02-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780310499886 |
A 6-DVD set, Basics of Biblical Greek Video Lectures features an integrated approach to learning New Testament Greek, turning it into a natural process and showing from the start how an understanding of the language helps in better comprehending the New Testament. This DVD set features 36 lessons, each twenty to thirty-five minute, for each chapter in Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar. Useful as a complement to the book or as a standalone resource, the lectures are perfect for formal Greek language students who miss a classroom lecture or want additional help in their learning; instructors wanting to devote classroom time to drills and exercises, providing a lecture tool students can watch on their own time; homeschool parents and students; and self-taught students of biblical Greek alike.
Greek Letters
Title | Greek Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Michael S. Macrakis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN |
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.