The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of others survive. This new verse translation is accurate and highly readable, providing a consecutive text by using surviving words in the damaged papyri.
The most comprehensive and up-to-date Japanese-English English-Japanese dictionary for English-speaking learners available, with advice on grammar and usage for headwords; help with pronunciation; an extensive guide to Japanese grammar; and information on Japanese history and culture.
Suitable for learners of Classical Greek at school and university level, this dictionary covers over 20,000 Greek words and phrases and over 4,000 English words in common usage. It also offers help with Greek to English sentence construction and prose composition, and provides tables of irregular verbs.
With dictionary and thesaurus entries combined for ease of use, and a fresh, clear design, the Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus provides quick solutions to everyday language queries.
A compact, intermediate-level dictionary covering over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations. With supplements on grammar and correspondence, sections offering lifestyle and cultural information, plus this is an ideal reference tool for students and adult learners.
This new edition of the Pocket Oxford Thesaurus features over 230,000 synonyms and antonyms, to help you with all your everyday writing needs. This edition has been fully updated and contains new usage notes to help you avoid pitfalls when writing, and extra noun lists in the centre section
Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictionary is a major work of the European Enlightenment. It consists of a series of short essays, arranged alphabetically, whose unifying thread is an attack on religious and political intolerance. Highly entertaining, its concern with intolerance and its consequences is still relevant today.