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Classical Latinby JC McKeown
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2010; US$ 34.00Extensively field-tested and fine-tuned over many years, and designed specifically for a one-year course, JC McKeown's Classical Latin: An Introductory Course offers a thorough, fascinating, and playful grounding in Latin that combines the traditional grammatical method with the reading approach. more...
Compromising Traditionsby Judith P. Hallett; Thomas Van Nortwick
Routledge 1996; US$ 40.95Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship is the first collection of theoretically informed autobiographical writing in the field of classical studies. more...
Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Latin, 2Eby Natalie Harwood
Alpha Books 2003; US$ 15.99The latest edition of our comprehensive Latin primer, this covers basic vocabulary, grammar, and construction in an approachable format that offers a refreshing alternative to the standard, stuffy texts. more...
Essential Latinby G. D. A. Sharpley
Routledge 1999; US$ 40.95The ideal introduction to the world of ancient Rome for students and armchair enthusiasts alike. It presents a comprehensive survey of the language, life and customs of a culture that continues to influence our own. more...
More Latin for the Illiteratiby Jon R. Stone
Routledge 1999; US$ 29.95This book demystifies the terminology of modern courtrooms and hospitals, untangles some of the most complex examples of Latin abbreviation, and allows readers to explore the classical roots of law, medicine and the ministry. more...
Latin Language and Latin Cultureby Joseph Farrell; Denis Feeney; Stephen Hinds
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 32.00A 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. more...
Bilingualism and the Latin Languageby J. N. Adams
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 64.00This is the first book to deal systematically with problems of communication in the Roman world, in which numerous languages apart from Latin and Greek were spoken. Over a dozen languages are considered, and a wide range of cultural, historical and linguistic questions concerning the varying developments in bilingualism addressed. more...
Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italyby Robert Black
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 53.00The traditional claim that Renaissance humanists introduced a revolution in Italian classrooms is refuted in this masterly survey. Robert Black finds that classical learning in schools peaked in the twelfth century, and that it was not until the later fifteenth century that humanists had a significant impact on Italian schools. more...
A Companion to Latin Literatureby Stephen Harrison
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 194.95A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its beginnings in the third century BC through to the end of the second century AD. Provides expert overview of the main periods of Latin literary history, major genres, and key themes Covers all the major Latin works of prose and poetry, from Ennius to Augustine, including Lucretius, Cicero, Catullus, Livy, Vergil, Seneca, and Apuleius Includes invaluable reference material – dictionary entries on authors, chronological chart of political and literary history, and an annotated bibliography Serves as both a discursive literary history and a general reference book more...
Reading in Medieval St. Gallby Anna A. Grotans; David Ganz; Tessa Webber
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 139.00Learning to read in medieval Germany meant learning to read and understand Latin as well as German. The manuscripts of the tenth-century scholar and teacher Notker Labeo display how the medieval pedagogic method combined Latin and vernacular literacy. This study has much to contribute to our knowledge of medieval reading. more...