Latin language and Latin culture : from ancient to modern times /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Farrell, Joseph, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series:Roman literature and its contexts.
Subjects:
Latin language > Study and teaching.
Latin literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Latin language > Study and teaching > History.
Philologie latine > Étude et enseignement > Histoire.
Littérature latine > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Latin (Langue) > Étude et enseignement > Histoire.
Latin (Langue) > Étude et enseignement.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Latin.
Civilization > Study and teaching
Latin language > Study and teaching
Latijn.
Culturele aspecten.
Philologie latine > Étude et enseignement.
Latin (langue) > Étude et enseignement.
Rome > Civilization > Study and teaching.
Rome > Civilisation > Étude et enseignement > Histoire.
Rome > Civilisation > Étude et enseignement.
Rome (Empire)
Rome (Italie) > Civilisation > Étude et enseignement.
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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).

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