Latin Language and Latin Culture: From Ancient to Modern Times

(Part of the Roman Literature and its Contexts Series)

by Joseph Farrell

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The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyses their effect on how Latin literature is read. It argues that these metaphors have become id?es fixes not only in the popular imagination but in the formation of Latin studies as a professional discipline. By reading with and more...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521776635

ISBN13:9780521776639

Release Date:February 2001

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:164 Pages

Weight:0.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"

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