Natural History of Latin

Name: Natural History of Latin
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ISBN: 9780199214051

ISBN-10: 0199214050

ISBN-13: 9780199214051

Edition: 2007

Authors: Tore Janson, Merethe Damsgaard Sï¿½rensen, Nigel Vincent

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No known language, including English, has achieved the success and longevity of Latin. French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its direct descendants, and countless Latin words and phrases comprise the cornerstone of English itself. A Natural History or Latin tells its history from its origins over 2500 years ago to the present. Brilliantly conceived, popularizing but authoritative, and written with the fluency and light touch that have made Tore Janson's Speak so attractive to tens of thousands of readers, it is a masterpiece of adroit synthesis. The book commences with a description of the origins, emergence, and dominance of Latin over the Classical period. Then follows an…

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List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Vincent has held the Mont Follick Chair of Comparative Philology in the University of Manchester since 1987.



Foreword



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 Quintilian


The sciences


Everyday language


Laws and legal language


Tacitus, the emperors, and Britain


Christianity: from dangerous sect to state religion



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 Heloise


The thinkers


The Renaissance


Doctors and their language


Linnaeus and Latin


Physicists, chemists, and others


Alchemy, witchcraft, and Harry Potter


Loanwords and neologisms


Latin and German


Latin and French


Latin and English


Latin and us



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



Basic Vocabulary



Common Phrases and Expressions


Suggested reading


Index