Latin: Story of a World Language - Brossura

Leonhardt, Jurgen

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ISBN 10: 0674659961 ISBN 13: 9780674659964

Casa editrice: Belknap Pr, 2016

Riassunto

The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Jürgen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language", from antiquity to the present.

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Recensione:

"This book, which traces the vicissitudes of Latin over 26 centuries asks two central questions: When do languages die? And who owns them while they are alive? Leonhardt pursues the answers as if on the trail of time-travelling serial killers... Latin might be classified as a long-dead language but this work reminds us that no one has informed Latin of that fact." --Bettany Hughes, Prospect

"One of the many achievements of Leonhardt's book is to give readers, for the first time, a sense of what Latin has meant, and what is has been most useful for, in every period of Western history. (...) Leonhardt s informative and useful book ends with a plea to teach Latin as a living language, but the bulk of his work is historical: a lucid, erudite account of the history of Latin, from its origins as a literary language in the third century BCE up to the present. It s a pioneering enterprise (...)" --London Review of Books

"His book is a highly readable tour of the language, from antiquity, through the Renaissance, to its use in reports for the Council of the European Union in 2006." --Standpoint

L'autore:

Jurgen Leonhardt is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Tubingen.

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• Editore: Belknap Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0674659961
• ISBN 13: 9780674659964
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 332