1: Introduction
2: Greek
The sounds of Greek
Word-forms
The Iliad
Formulas
Thucydides and abstract language
Pauline prepositions
3: Latin
How Latin works
Lucretius
Horace and Housman
Tacitus
4: Old English and the Germanic Languages
Grimm's Law and umlaut
Verbs, strong and weak
Old English
Beowulf
5: Sanskrit
The sounds of Sanskrit
Sandhi
Nouns in Sanskrit
The Rig Veda
How to kill a dragon
The hidden names of the dawn-cows
6: Old Irish and the Celtic Languages
The eccentricities of the Irish language
Old Irish in action
Welsh
7: Hebrew
The sounds of Semitic
How Semitic words change shape
Let there be light
Noun chains
8: Epilogue and Further Reading
Endmatter
Index