Title Latin language and Latin culture : from ancient to modern times / Joseph Farrell.

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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 148 pages).
Series	Roman literature and its contexts
	Roman literature and its contexts.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-140) and index.
Note	Print version record.
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).
Summary	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.
Subject	Latin language -- Study and teaching.
	Latin literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
	Rome -- Civilization -- Study and teaching.
	Latin philology.
	Latin language.
	Latin literature.
	FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Latin.
	Latijn.
	Culturele aspecten.
Other Form:	Print version: Farrell, Joseph, 1955- Latin language and Latin culture. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521772230 0521776635 (DLC) 00031265 (OCoLC)44019027
ISBN	0511040814 (electronic bk.)
	9780511040818 (electronic bk.)
	9780511613289 (electronic bk.)
	0511613288 (electronic bk.)
	9780511049729 (electronic bk.)
	0511049722 (electronic bk.)

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