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ISBN 10: 0199214050

ISBN 13: 9780199214051

Author: Tore Janson

Beginning in Rome around 600 BC, Latin became the language of the civilized world and remained so for more than two millennia. French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its progeny and it provides the international vocabulary of law and life science. No known language, including English – itself enriched by Latin words and phrases – has achieved such success and longevity. Tore Janson tells its history from origins to present. Brilliantly conceived and written with the same light touch as his bestselling history of languages, A Natural History of Latin is a masterpiece of adroit synthesis. The author charts the expansion of Latin in the classical world, its renewed importance in the Middle Ages, and its survival into modern times. He shows how spoken and written Latin evolved in different places and its central role in European history and culture. He ends with a concise Latin grammar and lists of Latin words and phrases still in common use. Considered elitist and irrelevant in the second half of the twentieth century and often even banned from schools, Latin is now enjoying a huge revival of interest across Europe, the UK, and the USA. Tore Janson offers persuasive arguments for its value and gives direct access to its fascinating worlds, past and present.

A Natural History of Latin 1st Table of contents:

Part I 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

Part II 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 Héloïse

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

Part III 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

Part IV Basic Vocabulary

Lists of Words, Phrases and Quotations

Basic Vocabulary

Part V Common Phrases and Expressions

Common Phrases and Expressions

Suggested reading

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