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Poetry in the Limburger Chronik Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 40
ISBN: 9781607245551
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Julius Goebel takes the Chronicle of Limburg and demonstrates how this seemingly prosaic source preserves otherwise unknown German folksong and poetry.
Que, Et, Atque in the Inscriptions of the Republic, in Terence, and in Cato Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 37
ISBN: 9781607245544
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Prof. Elmer offers an analysis of the use of coordinating conjunctions in Latin of the middle Republic – que, atque, and et.
Servius on the Tropes and Figures of Vergil Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 62
ISBN: 9781607245667
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
John Leverett Moore, in this doctoral thesis for Johns Hopkins University, examines the methods by which Servius organized his commentary on Virgil.
Sir Orfeo Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 27
ISBN: 9781607245520
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
George Lyman Kittredge examines the medieval romance of Sir Orfeo against its classical predecessor in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Studies in Pindaric Syntax. Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 30
ISBN: 9781607245421
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Basil Gildersleeve, a prolific scholar of Greek and Latin grammar, here analyzes the difficult syntax of Pindar, paying particular attention to dependent clauses and conditional statements.
The 'Ablaut' of Greek Roots Which Show Variation between e and o Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 46
ISBN: 9781607245384
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Maurice Bloomfield applies the principles of linguistics to find the proper root forms for Ancient Greek words, a task complicated by the vowel shift that occurs when Greek words (particularly verbs) are inflected.
The Agon of the Old Comedy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 28
ISBN: 9781607245582
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Milton W. Humphreys explores the development of the comic agon – that is, the contest-in-words that is the heart of Athenian drama and a reflection of the speech competitions in Athenian politics.
The Assyrian E-Vowel Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 27
ISBN: 9781607245575
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Paul Haupt argues for the existence of an e-vowel in Ugaritic, a vowel whose existence is difficult to prove in the consonant-free script of Semitic language.
The Origin of the Recessive Accent in Greek Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 41
ISBN: 9781607245599
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Maurice Bloomfield, a great authority on Sanskrit literature and comparative linguistics, applies the principles of linguistics to explain the recessive accent of Greek verbs in terms of Indo-European.
The Pennsylvania German Dialect Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 114
ISBN: 9781607245605
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Learned's history and grammar of Pennsylvania German is still a standard text of this living dialect and includes sections on ethnography, history, phonology, grammar, and etymology.
The Reduction of ei to i in Homer Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9781607245490
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Herbert Weir Smyth focuses on a grammatical feature of the Homeric dialect of Greek viewed as an aberration by other grammarians, namely what seems to be a reduction of the -ei diphthong to -i in certain words.
The Sequence of Tenses in Latin Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 72
ISBN: 9781607245568
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
In this well-known piece, Hale questions the rule of sequence of tense in Latin subjunctive clauses which is still used to teach Latin grammar, but fails to correspond to the language as it was used by the Romans themselves.
The Translation of Beowulf, and the Relations of Ancient and Modern English Verse Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 33
ISBN: 9781607245513
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Francis B. Gummere presents s clear discussion of the issues involved in translating the poem for modern English readers.
The Upanishads and Their Latest Translation Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 26
ISBN: 9781607245537
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
William Dwight Whitney examines various translation of the Upanishads, the sacred Vedic literature of India.
Verbals in -tos in Sophocles Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 56
ISBN: 9781607245674
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Charles Bishop, whose life work revolved around the study of -teos adjectives in Greek and cognate forms in other Indo-European languages, examines the specific role of such adjectives in the plays of Sophocles.
Words for Color in the Rig Veda Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 26
ISBN: 9781607245476
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2009
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Edward Hopkins here addresses and debunks the color theory, which assumes that ancient peoples were unable to perceive shades of green and blue because they lack vocabulary parallel to our own words for color.