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The Aryan God of Lightning Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 29
ISBN: 9781607246091
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Edwin Fay proposes that the Vedic god Agni has his origins in an Aryan lightening god.
The Dramatic Satura and the Old Comedy at Rome Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 30
ISBN: 9781607245988
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Hendrickson suggests that Roman drama was a cross-pollination of Greek comedy with Roman satire.
The Imperfect and the Aorist in Greek Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 47
ISBN: 9781607246022
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Prof. Miller provides an in-depth examination of the use and meaning of the Aorist and Imperfect tenses in Ancient Greek.
The Latin Prohibitive Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 51
ISBN: 9781607245964
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Prof. Elmer re-evaluates common misconceptions surrounding the use and meaning of the Latin prohibitive subjunctive.
The Limitation of the Imperative in the Attic Orators Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 38
ISBN: 9781607245889
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Miller provides a systematic analysis of the ways in which Attic orators used the ancient Greek imperative.
The Origin of Latin Haud and Greek ou; And the Extensions of the Originally Unextended Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 27
ISBN: 9781607246114
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Horton-Smith offers an explanation for the negatives haud and ou in Latin and Greek respectively, suggesting a root word meaning "to fail."
The Saturnian Metre Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 62
ISBN: 9781607245919
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Wallace Martin Lindsay addresses the still unresolved problem of Saturnian meter in early Latin poetry, presenting the case for the accent-based meter over the quantitative.
The Subjunctive in Independent Sentences in Plautus Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 81
ISBN: 9781607246121
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
A survey of the independent subjunctive in Plautus, resulting in an alternative set of rules for its use and application.
The Third Class of Weak Verbs in Primitive Teutonic, with Special Reference to Its Development in Anglo-Saxon Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 47
ISBN: 9781607245926
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
In this paper Marguerite Sweet offers a tentative explanation by showing parallels not in Latin (as was previously suggested) but in Gothic.
Vedic Reduplication of Nouns and Adjectives Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 41
ISBN: 9781607245902
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Edward Hopkins discusses the reduplication in Vedic nouns that mirrors the sort of reduplication more commonly found in Indo-European verbs, and suggests verbal origins for such nouns.
William Dwight Whitney Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 28
ISBN: 9781607245995
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Thomas Seymour's tribute on the death of William Dwight Whitney is a contemporary biography of this great scholar of linguistics.
New Dictionary of the Armenian Language (vol 2) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 1067
ISBN: 9781593339074
Pub Date: 27 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
Considered to be the most complete dictionary of Old Armenian (also known as Classical Armenian or Grabar, this historic dictionary is essential to the study of this language. Written by three members of the Mekhitarist Order, this project represents the first major attempt to document Old Armenian in any comprehensive way. This two-volume reference work is presented in the Classical Armenian alphabet with definitions given in Latin.
Stichometry Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 48
ISBN: 9781607245469
Pub Date: 14 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
James Rendel Harris uses known statistics of ancient autographs (that is, the original version of a written document) to posit the general appearance of ancient documents in their original form.
Analogy in the Semitic Languages Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 55
ISBN: 9781607245636
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Abel H. Huizinga was a noted scholar of Hebrew, and in this, his dissertation for John's Hopkins University, he discusses the mechanics of analogy in semitic languages with a focus on Hebrew.
Bohtlingk's Upanishads Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 33
ISBN: 9781607245643
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
William Dwight Whitney examines Bahtlingk's edition of the two longest of the ancient or genuine Hindu Upanishads, the Chandogya and the Brhad-Aranyaka.
Nonius Marcellus Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 39
ISBN: 9781607245445
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Nettleship's introduction and commentary to Nonius Marcellus, a 3rd century AD writer on Latin grammar and lexicography. This includes a lengthy biography and background on the work and its influence.