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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farrell, Joseph, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Colección:Roman literature and its contexts.
Temas:
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).