Author : Eleanor Dickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107093607
During the Roman empire Greek speakers learned Latin using textbooks that still offer special advantages: authentic and enjoyable vignettes about the ancient world, easy Latin composed by Romans, insight into ancient learning practices. This book makes the ancient Latin-learning materials available to modern students for the first time.
Author : Eleanor Dickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107474574
What did Greek speakers in the Roman empire do when they wanted to learn Latin? They used Latin-learning materials containing authentic, enjoyable vignettes about daily life in the ancient world - shopping, banking, going to the baths, having fights, being scolded, making excuses - very much like the dialogues in some of today's foreign-language textbooks. These stories provide priceless insight into daily life in the Roman empire, as well as into how Latin was learned at that period, and they were all written by Romans in Latin that was designed to be easy for beginners to understand. Learners also used special beginners' versions of great Latin authors including Virgil and Cicero, and dictionaries, grammars, texts in Greek transliteration, etc. All these materials are now available for the first time to today's students, in a book designed to complement modern textbooks and enrich the Latin-learning experience.
Author : Eleanor Dickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 131619504X
The Colloquia are manuals written to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages; they contain examples of how to conduct activities like shopping, banking, visiting friends, hosting parties, taking oaths, winning lawsuits, using the public baths, having fights, making excuses and going to school. They thus offer a unique glimpse of daily life in the early Roman Empire and are an important resource for understanding ancient culture. They have, however, been unjustly neglected because until now there were no modern editions of the texts, no translations into any modern language, and little understanding of what the Colloquia are and where they come from. This book completes the task begun by Volume 1 of making the Colloquia accessible for the first time, presenting a new edition, translation and commentary of the remaining surviving texts. It is clearly written and will interest students, non-specialists and professional scholars alike.
Author : Eleanor Dickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 110735501X
The Colloquia are manuals written to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages; they contain examples of how to conduct activities like shopping, banking, visiting friends, hosting parties, taking oaths, winning lawsuits, using the public baths, having fights, making excuses and going to school. They thus offer a unique glimpse of daily life in the Early Roman Empire and are an important resource for understanding ancient culture. They have, however, been unjustly neglected because until now there has not been any modern editions of the texts, no translations into any modern language, and little understanding of what the Colloquia are and where they come from. This book makes the Colloquia accessible for the first time by combining a new edition, translation and commentary with a ground-breaking, comprehensive study of their origins. It is clearly written and will interest students, non-specialists and professional scholars alike.
Author : Eleanor Dickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521761425
This book offers a lively, intelligent, accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date introduction to translating into ancient Greek.
Author : Eleanor Dickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107140846
The only introductory Latin textbook to use texts written by ancient Romans for Latin learners, presented in one volume.
Author : Augustus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521841528
This book provides a text, translation and detailed commentary for this seminal work for the study of Roman history.
Author : J. N. Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107354692
Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar Latin), but studies of modern languages demonstrate that linguistic change does not merely come, in the social sense, 'from below'. There is change from above, as prestige usages work their way down the social scale, and change may also occur across the social classes. This book is a history of many of the developments undergone by the Latin language as it changed into Romance, demonstrating the varying social levels at which change was initiated. About thirty topics are dealt with, many of them more systematically than ever before. Discussions often start in the early Republic with Plautus, and the book is as much about the literary language as about informal varieties.
Author : Eleanor Dickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1107176808
This book provides English translations of newly discovered texts in an easily understandable presentation, with extensive illustrations.
Author : Georg Goetz
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781018202693
