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Hardcover:
9780521081436 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 28, 1972, cover price $5.95
Product Description: Reading Latin is a Latin course designed to help mature beginners read Latin fluently and intelligently, primarily in the context of classical culture, but with some mediaeval Latin too. It does this in three ways; it encourages reading of continuous texts from the start; it offers generous help with translation at every stage; and it integrates the learning of Classical Latin with an appreciation of the influence of the Latin language upon English and European culture from Antiquity to the present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Paperback:
9780521286237 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1986, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Reading Latin is a Latin course designed to help mature beginners read Latin fluently and intelligently, primarily in the context of classical culture, but with some mediaeval Latin too.
9789990062601 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1986, cover price $0.02
Product Description: Reading Latin is a Latin course designed to help mature beginners read Latin fluently and intelligently, primarily in the context of classical culture, but with some mediaeval Latin too. It does this in three ways; it encourages reading of continuous texts from the start; it offers generous help with translation at every stage; and it integrates the learning of Classical Latin with an appreciation of the influence of the Latin language upon English and European culture from Antiquity to the present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Paperback:
9780521286220 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1986, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Reading Latin is a Latin course designed to help mature beginners read Latin fluently and intelligently, primarily in the context of classical culture, but with some mediaeval Latin too.
9789990062595 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1986, cover price $0.02
A commentary with an introduction that describes the features of oral poetry and discusses the history of the text of the Odyssey.Jones provides a line-by-line commentary that explains the many factual details, mythological allusions, and Homeric conventions that a student or general reader could not be expected to bring to an initial encounter with the Odyssey. His notes also enhance an appreciation of the Odyssey by illuminating epic style, Homerâs methods of composition, his characterization, and the structure of the work.
Hardcover:
9780809315468 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, June 1, 1989, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A commentary with an introduction that describes the features of oral poetry and discusses the history of the text of the Odyssey.
Paperback:
9780809315475 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $21.95
Hardcover:
9780521384216 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $150.00
Paperback:
9780521386005 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $39.99
9789997002334 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $0.02
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Hardcover:
9780198147329 | Clarendon Pr, February 12, 1998, cover price $275.00
Product Description: Peter Jones calls on the ancient Greeks and Romans to cast light on modern problems in this first collection of his columns, which have appeared for over ten years in the "Spectator" and the "Sunday Telegraph". Typical issues on which a light is thrown are women priests, growing old gracefully, how to end strikes, psychotherapy, finding a wife, going on holiday, succeeding in life, ending crime, the purpose of children, why bare feet are bad for sex, the sex-drive of the powerful, the use of alcohol, foretelling the future, and the power of the dead...read more
Paperback:
9780715628904 | Bristol Classical Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Peter Jones calls on the ancient Greeks and Romans to cast light on modern problems in this first collection of his columns, which have appeared for over ten years in the "Spectator" and the "Sunday Telegraph".
Product Description: Reading Latin, written by Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell and published by Cambridge University Press in 1986, is a Latin course designed to help mature beginners read Latin fluently and intelligently. This Independent Study Guide is intended for students who are using the course on their own or with only limited access to a teacher...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Paperback:
9780521653732 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Reading Latin, written by Peter V.
Product Description: Homer's mighty epic, the Iliad, is the first work of western literatureand one of the defining masterpieces of our culture. The purpose ofthis new line-by-line commentary is to help as wide an audience aspossible to understand and appreciate the poem through the best ofrecent scholarship on the man and his work...read more
Paperback:
9781853996573 | Bristol Classical Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Homer's mighty epic, the Iliad, is the first work of western literatureand one of the defining masterpieces of our culture.
Hardcover:
9781439163375 | Reprint edition (Atria Books, October 11, 2011), cover price $35.00 | also contains Iliad, Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad
9781904633389 | New edition (Collectors Library, September 1, 2011), cover price $9.95 | also contains Iliad, Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad | About this edition: One of the great epics of western literature, 'The Iliad' recounts the story of the Trojan wars.
9781934451472 | Wilder Pubns Ltd, March 30, 2007, cover price $24.99 | also contains Iliad, Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad
Paperback:
9781523427895 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 16, 2016, cover price $19.99 | also contains Iliad, Iliad, Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad
9781519409171 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 19, 2015, cover price $20.00 | also contains Iliad, Iliad, Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad
9781519324726 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 16, 2015, cover price $16.99 | also contains Iliad, Iliad, Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad | About this edition: Description Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.
9781519334190 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 16, 2015, cover price $16.99 | also contains Iliad, Iliad, Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad | About this edition: Description Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.
9781519335531 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 16, 2015, cover price $24.99 | also contains Iliad, Iliad, Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad | About this edition: Description Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.
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Miscellaneous:
9781416540151 | Simon & Schuster, August 1, 2006, cover price $5.99 | also contains Iliad, Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad
CD/Spoken Word:
9781520017402, titled "Iliad" | Mp3 una edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, August 19, 2016), cover price $29.99 | also contains Iliad, Iliad, Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad
9781520017365, titled "Iliad" | Unabridged edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, August 19, 2016), cover price $39.99 | also contains Iliad, Iliad, Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad
9781442347311 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, October 11, 2011), cover price $49.99 | also contains Iliad, Iliad, Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad, The Iliad
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