The book affords solutions to some significant phonetics and phonology in Aramaic and Arabic. In the area of human language maintenance and erosion, the dynamics and timelines of such language phenomena are highlighted with relevance to Mesopotamia. Additionally, the book poses some innovative views pertinent to the progress of civilization from concreteness to abstraction with particular emphasis on writing systems

An accessible new and selected collection of poems for poetry insiders and general readers. Powerful, passionate, humorous, and often complex, yet fun to read. They go down easy, but pack a whallop.

Sutphen's list of Latin proverbs from the Classical era through the Middle Ages, arranged aphabetically.

Edward Rand's analysis of the Harvard ms. L25, one of the few sources for both Ovid's Heroides and Tacitus' Germania.

This is the introduction to Edgerton's edition and translation of the Vikramacarita, a Sanskrit story-collection.

Leech argues against a simplistic view of the Greeks as radical fatalists, underlining their view of the equally prevalent Greek ideas of individual freedom and self-determination.

Prof. Rand uses references to Hesiod's work in other authors to defend and uphold the received text of Works and Days.

Truman Michelson explores the spelling variants among copies of the Edicts of Ashoka, a legal document in Sanskrit.

Prof. Radford uses early Latin poetry to examine patterns of vowel quantity in early spoken Latin.

Basil Gildersleeve discusses certain difficulties in codifying Greek syntax.

Prof. Perrin uses Aristotle's Poetics to classify and analyze the various sorts of recognition scenes found in surviving Greek literature.

William Churchill's essay on roots in Polynesian language, challenging the Euro-centric scholarship of traditional linguistics.

Kirby Flower Smith explores the development of Greek and Latin elegiac meter from its origins to Imperial Rome.

Prof. Ogle traces the Classical roots of descriptions of feminine beauty in poetry of the English renaissance.

R. B. Steele classifies Livy's use of the gerund and gerundive in his history of Rome, providing insight into the regular useage of this rather irregular feature of Latin grammar.

Edgerton's review of Hertel's text of the Paficatantra with specific reference to Hertel's interpretation of the Beast myth.