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The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana 2 Volume Set
Eleanor Dickey
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Description for The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana 2 Volume Set
hardcover. New edition and translation of ancient depictions of daily life in the Roman Empire. Editor(s): Dickey, Eleanor. Series: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 303 x 41. Weight in Grams: 2188.
The Colloquia are manuals written to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages; they contain examples of how to conduct activities like shopping, banking, visiting friends, hosting parties, taking oaths, winning lawsuits, using the public baths, having fights, making excuses and going to school. They thus offer a unique glimpse of daily life in the early Roman Empire and are an important resource for understanding ancient culture. They have, however, been unjustly neglected because until now there were no modern editions of the texts, no translations into any modern language, and little understanding of what the ... Read more
The Colloquia are manuals written to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages; they contain examples of how to conduct activities like shopping, banking, visiting friends, hosting parties, taking oaths, winning lawsuits, using the public baths, having fights, making excuses and going to school. They thus offer a unique glimpse of daily life in the early Roman Empire and are an important resource for understanding ancient culture. They have, however, been unjustly neglected because until now there were no modern editions of the texts, no translations into any modern language, and little understanding of what the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
Number of Pages
600
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107085084
SKU
V9781107085084
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About Eleanor Dickey
Eleanor Dickey is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading. She has published widely on the Latin and Greek languages and the ways in which they were studied in antiquity, including Greek Forms of Address (1996), Latin Forms of Address (2002) and Ancient Greek Scholarship (2007). She also has extensive experience of teaching elementary languages, both Greek and Latin, ... Read more
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