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Contributions to the Interpretation of the Veda Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 39
ISBN: 9781607246060
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Maurice Bloomfield discusses a variety of then-current issues in the study of Sanskrit literature and Indian culture.
Establishment and Extension of the Law of Thurneysen and Havet Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 49
ISBN: 9781607246015
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Horton-Smith presents a defense of the Law of Thurneysen and Havet, which describes changes in Latin vowels during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.
French Words in Wolfram von Eschenbach Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 36
ISBN: 9781607246046
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Leo Wiener lists Wolfram von Eschenbach's use of French words in his German epic poems Parzival, Titurel, and Willehalm.
New Suggestions on the Ciris Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 26
ISBN: 9781607245957
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Robinson Ellis reviews the debate surrounding the Ciris, an epic in miniature often attributed to Virgil, though never confirmed to be that poet's work.
Notes to the Dialogus de Oratoribus Based on Gudeman's Edition Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 26
ISBN: 9781607246107
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Reading notes and commentary to Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus, a little-known yet key work in Tacitus' ouvre.
On Delbruck's Vedic Syntax Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 36
ISBN: 9781607245896
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
William Whitney reviews the Vedic syntax of Delbruck, the founder of the study of comparative linguistcs.
On Recent Studies in Hindu Grammar Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 27
ISBN: 9781607245933
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
William Dwight Whitney reviews the work of Bruno Liebich and R. Otto Franke, two scholars whose work was foundational to the codification of Sanskrit grammar and literature.
On the Archaisms Noted by Servius in the Commentary to Vergil Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 30
ISBN: 9781607246039
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Steele lists and discusses archaisms in Vergil's Aeneid that were used to reinforce the historical flavor of the epic.
On the Judaeo-German Spoken by the Russian Jews Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 55
ISBN: 9781607245940
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Leo Wiener presents an overview of the history, culture, and language of the Jews who emigrated from Germany to Slavic countries and continued to speak a dialect of German.
On the Old Armenian Version of Plato's Apology Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 26
ISBN: 9781607246008
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Frederick Coneybeare analyzes old Armenian codices of Plato's Apology in order to demonstrate the weakness of the chief codex used to support the Greek text.
On the Western Text of the Acts as Evidenced by Chrysostom Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 37
ISBN: 9781607246084
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Frederick Coneybeare uses Armenian and Greek texts of Chrysostom's sermons on Acts to question and correct the core text in use by the Western church.
Semasiological Possibilities Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 37
ISBN: 9781607246152
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Francis Wood, a linguist known for his work on Latin and Greek etymology, here presents the thesis “Difference in meaning is of itself no bar to connecting words.”
Servius and the Scholia of Daniel Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 47
ISBN: 9781607246169
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Steele suggests a division in the longer edition of Servius' commentary on Vergil between Servius and the work of later commentators.
Shakespeare, Burlesqued by Two Fellow-Dramatists Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 27
ISBN: 9781607246053
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Henry Wood discusses contemporary parodies and commentaries upon the works of Shakespeare in other dramatic productions.
The Aryan Future Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 50
ISBN: 9781607245872
Pub Date: 04 Sep 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Edward Hopkins, a famous scholar of comparative linguistics, compares the features of the future tense in languages of Aryan (Indo-European) origin.
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.