A natural history of Latin / Tore Janson ; translated and adapted into English by Merethe Damsgard Srensen and Nigel Vincent
2004, First Edition. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. A few pages bear highlighter markings. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #445956
Physical description: 316 p. Contents: Contents; Foreword; Part I: Latin and the Romans; Lingua latina: a first acquaintance; The earliest period of Rome; How Latin became Latin; From small town to great power; How bad were the Romans?; A voice from early Rome; The meeting with Greece; Theatre for the people; The age of revolutions; Writing, reading, listening, and speaking; Speeches, politics, and trials; Cicero and rhetoric; The language of history; Imperium romanum: Augustus and the Roman empire; Name and family; Years and months; Latin becomes the language of Europe; Poetry and poets; Philosophy: Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca. The schools and QuintilianThe sciences; Everyday language; Laws and legal language; Tacitus, the emperors, and Britain; Christianity: from dangerous sect to state religion; Part II: Latin and Europe; Europe after Rome; From Latin to the Romance languages; Missionaries, Latin, and foreign languages; Latin in Britain; Latin in schools; Speaking and spelling; Books and scribes; Saints and heretics; The guardians of the heritage; Poetry after antiquity; Abelard and Héloïse; The thinkers; The Renaissance; Doctors and their language; Linnaeus and Latin; Physicists, chemists, and others
Alchemy, witchcraft, and Harry PotterLoanwords and neologisms; Latin and German; Latin and French; Latin and English; Latin and us; Part III: About the Grammar; Introduction; Pronunciation and stress; Sentences, verbs, and nouns; Words and word classes; Nouns; Adjectives; Pronouns; The forms of the verb; Amandi and Amanda; How words are formed; Part IV: Basic Vocabulary; Part V: Common Phrases and Expressions; Suggested reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z. Subjects: Latin language History. Latin language, Medieval and modern History. Latin language Grammar History. Ancient Rome.
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