Author: Michael A. Flower
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195188683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most famous survival stories ever written and the most important autobiographical work to have survived from ancient Greece. This book places the Anabasis in its historical and literary context and opens up for the reader different ways of interpreting its major themes.
Author: Alpheus Crosby
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Author: Alpheus Crosby
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Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Author: Geoffrey Steadman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984306541
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Facing each of the 44 pages of John Burnet's Greek edition of Plato's Republic I (originally published by Oxford University Press in 1903) is a single page of corresponding vocabulary and intermediate level grammatical commentary. Once readers have memorized the core vocabulary list, they will be able to read the classical Greek and consult all relevant vocabulary and commentary without turning the page.
Author: Alpheus Crosby
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781493795215
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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An excerpt from the beginning of the PREFACE: Shall the student commence the reading of Greek with a general or a special lexicon 1 If the former is chosen, he must expect, 1. Greater labor in finding words. The time required for finding a word in a lexicon is nearly in the direct ratio of the size of the book, and the number of words in its list. The larger the book, the more pages must be turned over, or the more matter scrutinized on a page, - commonly both; and the longer its list, the more words must be looked at, before the right one catches the eye. This would seem quite too obvious for remark, were not its disregard so common, and so costly of time to the learner. 2. More labor in finding the required signification. How much time is often painfully spent in looking through a long article, - where various meanings, illustrative examples, translations of these examples, references, and remarks are commingled, - before the eye lights upon an appropriate signification; and even after this, not unfrequently, how much in addition, before the different admissible meanings can be brought together and compared for the selection of the best! 3. A difficulty in finding some words at all. This difficulty occurs in the Greek far more than in most languages, from the many euphonic and emphatic changes in its inflection, from crasis, and especially from the various forms of the augment and reduplication, which often render it uncertain even under what letter the search should be commenced. The considerations first presented have also a special application to the Greek, from the copiousness of its vocabulary, and from the variety of form and use which its words obtained through so many centuries, dialects, and kinds of literature. If relief from these disadvantages is sought in the use of an abridged general lexicon, then a more serious evil is often substituted, - the absence of what is needed, in the place of labor in finding it. The great use which is wisely made of Xenophon's Anabasis in elementary study seems to entitle it to all the advantages which a special lexicon can confer. In more advanced reading, when comparatively few words present themselves as strangers, and a more comprehensive view of the language is sought, there can, of course, be no adequate substitute for a good general lexicon. Proper names are here treated with more fulness than has been usual in works of this kind; chiefly by giving such information as the student might desire in addition to that which the text itself furnishes. The modern identifications of ancient places are in part quite certain; but there are some in respect to which the most painstaking and, reliable travellers and geographers so differ, that it must simply be understood that that is here given which seemed most probable after the comparison of different authorities. A similar remark should be made respecting dates; in which there is this especial element of difference, that the Greek Olympic year was divided about equally between two years of our chronology....
Author: Alpheus Crosby
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Author: Xenophon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107079233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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First comprehensive commentary on a section of Anabasis in English for a century, reflecting scholarly advances for students and scholars.
Author: Alpheus Crosby
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332901398
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Excerpt from A Lexicon to Xenophon's Anabasis: Adapted to All the Common Editions Shall the student commence the reading of Greek with a general or a special lexicon? If the former is chosen, he must expect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Xenophon (of Athens.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Author: Alpheus Crosby
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332812410
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Excerpt from A Lexicon to Xenophon's Anabasis: Adapted to All the Common Editions; For the Use of Both of Beginners and of More Advanced Students Shall the student commence the reading of Greek with a general or a. Special lexicon? If the former is chosen, he must expect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
