Latin Grammar
Author: W.G. Hale
Format: Paperback, 517g, 388 pages
Published: The University of Alabama Press, United States, 1966
Useful for beginning students and scholars alike
This grammar has been praised for its conciseness and directness. Moreover, it is touted as a work that is useful for beginning Latin students and scholars alike. William Gardner Hale and Carl Darling Buck have produced a work that makes Latin grammar easier to understand. Plenty of examples are provided to illustrate the many grammatical points in this book which is always a pedagogical virtue. The language employed by the authors is easy to understand.
This book has been called the "best elementary grammar of Latin in existence." Contains over 387-pages of helpful grammatical details. Covering Latin phonology, morphology and syntax as well as Latin verse.
William Gardner Hale (1849-1928) was an American classical scholar who was professor of Latin at Cornell University from 1880 to 1892, and then became professor of Latin and head of the Latin department of the University of Chicago. From 1894 to 1899 he was chairman and in 1895-1896 first director of the American School of Classical Studies at Rome. He is best known as an original teacher on questions of syntax.
Carl Darling Buck (1866-1955) was an American philologist. 1892 he became professor of Sanskrit and Indo-European comparative philology at the University of Chicago and was later named Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Comparative Philology. His Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages was called by Calvert Watkins "a treasure house of words, word origins, expressions, and ideas..., a monument to a great American scholar." Upon his death, the New York Times reported that Buck spoke 30 languages.
Author: W.G. Hale
Format: Paperback, 517g, 388 pages
Published: The University of Alabama Press, United States, 1966
Useful for beginning students and scholars alike
This grammar has been praised for its conciseness and directness. Moreover, it is touted as a work that is useful for beginning Latin students and scholars alike. William Gardner Hale and Carl Darling Buck have produced a work that makes Latin grammar easier to understand. Plenty of examples are provided to illustrate the many grammatical points in this book which is always a pedagogical virtue. The language employed by the authors is easy to understand.
This book has been called the "best elementary grammar of Latin in existence." Contains over 387-pages of helpful grammatical details. Covering Latin phonology, morphology and syntax as well as Latin verse.
William Gardner Hale (1849-1928) was an American classical scholar who was professor of Latin at Cornell University from 1880 to 1892, and then became professor of Latin and head of the Latin department of the University of Chicago. From 1894 to 1899 he was chairman and in 1895-1896 first director of the American School of Classical Studies at Rome. He is best known as an original teacher on questions of syntax.
Carl Darling Buck (1866-1955) was an American philologist. 1892 he became professor of Sanskrit and Indo-European comparative philology at the University of Chicago and was later named Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Comparative Philology. His Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages was called by Calvert Watkins "a treasure house of words, word origins, expressions, and ideas..., a monument to a great American scholar." Upon his death, the New York Times reported that Buck spoke 30 languages.