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Diana Spencer, known for her scholarly focus on how ancient Romans conceptualized themselves as a people and how they responded to and helped shape the world they lived in, brings her expertise to an examination of the Roman scholar Varro and his treatise De Lingua Latina.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Roadmap for a Ruinous Text
  • Introduction
  • 1 Networking Varro
  • 2 Romespeaking: Strategies for Citizens
  • 3 Inspiring Latin
  • 4 Oratio and the Read/Write Experience
  • 5 As Old as the Hills
  • 6 Powering Up the Community
  • 7 A Family Affair
  • 8 Varro’s Fasti
  • Conclusion: Ending Up with Varro
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

    Language and Authority in De Lingua Latina

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      Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
      Publication Date: 30/10/2022
      ISBN13: 9780299323240, 978-0299323240
      ISBN10: 0299323242
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      Psycholinguistics Ancient history

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Diana Spencer, known for her scholarly focus on how ancient Romans conceptualized themselves as a people and how they responded to and helped shape the world they lived in, brings her expertise to an examination of the Roman scholar Varro and his treatise De Lingua Latina.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • A Roadmap for a Ruinous Text
      • Introduction
      • 1 Networking Varro
      • 2 Romespeaking: Strategies for Citizens
      • 3 Inspiring Latin
      • 4 Oratio and the Read/Write Experience
      • 5 As Old as the Hills
      • 6 Powering Up the Community
      • 7 A Family Affair
      • 8 Varro’s Fasti
      • Conclusion: Ending Up with Varro
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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