Latin Language and Latin Culture : From Ancient to Modern Times.

By: Farrell, JosephMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Roman Literature and its ContextsPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (164 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780511156083Subject(s): Latin language | Latin literature -- History and criticism | Latin literature -- Study and teachingGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Latin Language and Latin Culture : From Ancient to Modern TimesDDC classification: 870.9 LOC classification: PA2061 -- .F395 2001ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 The nature of Latin culture -- Coming to Latin culture -- The "universality" of Latin culture -- Latin culture in the modern world -- Continuity and rupture -- Grammatical and vulgar speech -- The return of the native -- CHAPTER 2 The poverty of our ancestral speech -- Poor relations -- The Greeks had a word for it -- On almost knowing Greek -- Mapping the linguistic domain -- The language of reality -- CHAPTER 3 The gender of Latin -- No Latin Sappho -- Mothers and sons -- Fathers and daughters -- Husbands and wives -- The sisters of Vibia Perpetua -- CHAPTER 4 The life cycle of dead languages -- Structures of literary and cultural history -- Linguistic miscegenation -- Gold and silver, bronze and iron -- Philology recapitulates ontology -- Soft bastard Latin, or, the nineteenth century and after -- Is there life after death? -- CHAPTER 5 The voices of Latin culture -- Dead language, dead metaphor -- "Not dead, but turned to stone" -- Different tongues -- Appendix: Nepos fr. 59 in the edition of Marshall (1977) -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A examination of stereotypical ideas about Latin and their effect on how Latin literature is read.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 The nature of Latin culture -- Coming to Latin culture -- The "universality" of Latin culture -- Latin culture in the modern world -- Continuity and rupture -- Grammatical and vulgar speech -- The return of the native -- CHAPTER 2 The poverty of our ancestral speech -- Poor relations -- The Greeks had a word for it -- On almost knowing Greek -- Mapping the linguistic domain -- The language of reality -- CHAPTER 3 The gender of Latin -- No Latin Sappho -- Mothers and sons -- Fathers and daughters -- Husbands and wives -- The sisters of Vibia Perpetua -- CHAPTER 4 The life cycle of dead languages -- Structures of literary and cultural history -- Linguistic miscegenation -- Gold and silver, bronze and iron -- Philology recapitulates ontology -- Soft bastard Latin, or, the nineteenth century and after -- Is there life after death? -- CHAPTER 5 The voices of Latin culture -- Dead language, dead metaphor -- "Not dead, but turned to stone" -- Different tongues -- Appendix: Nepos fr. 59 in the edition of Marshall (1977) -- Bibliography -- Index.

A examination of stereotypical ideas about Latin and their effect on how Latin literature is read.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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