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The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry

By: James W. Halporn,Martin Ostwald,Thomas G. Rosenmeyer

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The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry

By: James W. Halporn,Martin Ostwald,Thomas G. Rosenmeyer

A reprint of the University of Oklahoma Press edition of 1980. This reliable text presents a clear and simple outline of Greek and Latin meters in order that the verse of the Greeks and Romans may be read as poetry.

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150

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Hackett Publishing

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0872202437

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9780872202436

Philology

The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

By: James Turner

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Philology

The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

By: James Turner

A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more. In short, philology was the queen of the human sciences. How did it become little more than an archaic word? In Philology, the first history of Western humanistic learning as a connected whole ever published in English, James Turner tells the fascinating, forgotten story of how the study of languages and texts led to the modern humanities and the modern university. The humanities today face a crisis of relevance, if not of meaning and purpose. Understanding their common origins—and what they still share—has never been more urgent.

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574

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Princeton University Press

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069116858X

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9780691168586

The Globe

How the Earth Became Round

By: James Hannam

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The Globe

How the Earth Became Round

By: James Hannam

From Babylon to Columbus and beyond, a journey across millennia and—yes—the globe exploring how we came to understand our spherical planet. The Globe tells the story of humanity’s quest to discover the form of the world: that the Earth is round and not flat. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the knowledge to India, from where it spread to Baghdad and Central Asia. In early medieval Europe, Christians debated the matter, but long before the time of Columbus, the Catholic Church had accepted that Earth is a ball. However, it wasn’t until the seventeenth century that Jesuit missionaries finally convinced the Chinese that their traditional square-earth cosmology was mistaken. An accessible challenge to long-established beliefs about the history of ideas, The Globe shows how the realization that our planet is a sphere deserves to be considered the first great scientific achievement.

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377

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Reaktion Books

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1789148081

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9781789148084

Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar

By: James B Greenough,J. H. Allen

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Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar

By: James B Greenough,J. H. Allen

A venerable resource for more than a century, this is the finest Latin grammar reference available. Concise, comprehensive, and well organized, it places a wealth of advice on usage, vocabulary, diction, composition, and syntax.

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Courier Corporation

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0486131041

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9780486131047

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The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry

The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry

Philology

Philology

The Globe

The Globe

Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar

Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar

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