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UNINA9910826642603321 |
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Autore |
Farrell Joseph <1955-> |
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Latin language and Latin culture : from ancient to modern times / / Joseph Farrell [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-11961-8 |
1-280-42128-2 |
0-511-17562-0 |
0-511-04081-4 |
0-511-15608-1 |
0-511-61328-8 |
0-511-32353-0 |
0-511-04972-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 148 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Roman literature and its contexts |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Latin language - Study and teaching |
Latin literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Rome Civilization Study and teaching |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 The nature of Latin culture; CHAPTER 2 The poverty of our ancestral speech; CHAPTER 3 The gender of Latin; CHAPTER 4 The life cycle of dead languages; CHAPTER 5 The voices of Latin culture; Appendix: Nepos fr. 59 in the edition of Marshall (1977); Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 ideĢes fixes not only in the popular imagination but in the formation of Latin studies as a professional discipline. By reading with and more commonly against these |
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