Description
Book SynopsisDuring 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.
Trade Review'Fascinating … these ancient phrasebooks have some wonderful peculiarities.' Times Higher Education
'… this is a very useful book, and the author deserves special thanks. Much interesting information on the sources and recent research is concisely presented in a field often obscure even to experts. Moreover, the attractiveness of the presentation and analysis of the texts will hopefully encourage students to undertake further research in the field.' Peter Kuhlmann, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Texts; 3. Grammatical works; 4. Glossaries; 5. Prose composition; 6. Alphabets; 7. Transliterated texts; 8. Texts with the original Greek; 9. Texts without word division; 10. Overview of the ancient Latin-learning materials; Bibliography.
