Why do students today find Greek and Latin so difficult and frustrating to learn? Perhaps the primary barrier preventing us from learning another language successfully is that we often subconsciously
In his analysis of Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's (1889-1951) Tractatus, Kuhrt argues that something corresponds to the Greek idea of a given Logos-order, so that a personal experience is
This book is an anthropology of Greek poetry written during the third to first centuries B. C. - the so-called Hellenistic period. The volume contains a wide and representative range of poetry includi
Idyllic but remote, the Greek island of Thiminos seems untouched by the modern world. So when the battered body of a young woman is discovered at the foot of a cliff, the local police - governed more
Idyllic but remote, the Greek island of Thiminos seems untouched by the modern world. So when the battered body of a young woman is discovered at the foot of a cliff, the local police - governed more
A LOVE TO REMEMBER Mistress. It sounded so sordid, so impersonal, so far removed from the kind of relationship Marley Jameson had with Greek hotel magnate Chrysander Anetakis. What shethought she had.
The only solution to both their problems? Lyn Brandon put her life on hold to protect and keep her beloved orphaned nephew. So when rich, powerful and gorgeous Anatole Telonides arrives demanding the
It's time to throw away the rule book? Idealistic archaeologist Lily Rose craves a fairy-tale love, but in her experience it always ends in heartbreak. So now Lily's trying a different approach?a flin
It's time to throw away the rule book? Idealistic archaeologist Lily Rose craves a fairy-tale love, but in her experience it always ends in heartbreak. So now Lily's trying a different approach?a flin
Once upon a time but not so long ago, there was a six-year-old Greek girl called Maritsa. To escape the war in Europe, Maritsa and her family moved to the African Congo from 1942 to 1948. Maritsa had
Unlike their Greek hosts, Danes are not prone to chit-chat for awhile before getting down to business. So it is without introduction or preface that they plunge into the six papers. Among their topics
(Applause Books). "As Greek tragedy," says a Spanish writer, "was composed from the crumbs that fell from Homer's table, so the Spanish drama owed its earliest forms to La Celestina (14
In 2009, Patrick Leigh Fermor's Spanish-language translator, Dolores Payás, visited the writer in his Greek home for the first time. By this time he was well advanced in years. Even so he received her
Using a reader-oriented approach, Shadi Bartsch reconsiders the role of detailed descriptive accounts in the ancient Greek novels of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius and in so doing offers a new view of
"A history of Chinese philosophy in the so-called Axial Period (the period of classical Greek and Indian philosophy), during which time China evolved the characteristic ways of thought that sustained
In this vivid reimagining of a classical Greek myth, the eponymous Greek heroine Alcetis, known as the good wife because she loved her husband so much that she died to save his life, tells about her c
Mistress. It sounded so sordid, so impersonal, so far removed from the kind of relationship Marley Jameson had with Greek hotel magnate Chrysander Anetakis. What she thought she had. Until he abruptly
If you didn't grow up speaking Greek, you wouldn’t expect to leave home and instantly be fluent in it, would you? So why is it that we expect to suddenly be “fluent” in Happiness if Happiness wasn’t p
Pindar is one of the greatest Greek poets, but while the metre of half of his poems is easy to grasp, that of the other half has so far remained obscure. Kiichiro Itsumi presents a new account of thei
