1. The nature of Latin culture -- 2. The poverty of our ancestral speech -- 3. The gender of Latin -- 4. The life cycle of dead languages -- 5. The voices of Latin culture -- App. Nepos fr. 59 in the edition of Marshall (1977)
Summary
A 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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-140) and index
