Latin language and Latin culture : from ancient to modern times /
A examination of stereotypical ideas about the Latin language and their effect on how Latin literature is read. The book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over texts in Latin from antiquity to the twentieth century.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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Colección: | Roman literature and its contexts.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The nature of Latin culture
- 2. The poverty of our ancestral speech
- 3. The gender of Latin
- 4. The life cycle of dead languages
- 5. The voices of Latin culture
- App. Nepos fr. 59 in the edition of Marshall (1977).