Coulter H. George is a professor of classics at the University of Virginia. The author of Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek and Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek, he has also taught at Rice University and was a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.
This volume celebrates six such languages-Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew-by first introducing listeners to their most distinctive features, then showing how these linguistic traits play out in short excerpts fr...[SEE MORE]