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.
Print Book, English, 2001
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2001
History
xiv, 148 pages ; 21 cm
9780521772235, 9780521776639, 0521772230, 0521776635
44019027
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.