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Köp båda 2 för 297 krReview from previous edition Natural History of Latin is an authoritative introduction to arguably the most influential language of all time. Chicago Tribune
This always readable book is full of interest. The Scotsman
It is hard to imagine how this book could be improved... From now on, if anyone who has never studied Latin askes me to recommend a short, readable book in which they can find out about the history of Latin and get a feel for the grammar, I will be able to answer unhesitatingly. Linguist List
<br>Tore Janson was Professor of Oriental and African Languages at the University of G teborg until his retirement in 2000. He was previously Professor of Linguistics at the same university and a world expert on the history of Latin. He is the author of the international bestseller Speak: A ShortHistory of Languages (OUP 2002; trade paperback 2003).<br>
PART I LATIN AND THE ROMANS; 1. Lingua latina: a first acquaintance; 2. The earliest period of Rome; 3. How Latin became Latin; 4. From small town to great power; 5. How bad were the Romans?; 6. A voice from early Rome; 7. The meeting with Greece; 8. Theatre for the people; 9. The age of revolutions; 10. Writing, reading, listening, and speaking; 11. Speeches, politics, and lawsuits; 12. Cicero and rhetoric; 13. The language of history; 14. Imperium romanum: Augustus and the Roman Empire; 15. Name and family; 16. Years and months; 17. Latin becomes the language of Europe; 18. Poets and poetry; 19. Philosophy: Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca; 20. The Schools and Quintilian; 21. The sciences; 22. Everyday language; 23. Laws and legal language; 24. Tacitus, the emperors, and Britain; 25. Christianity: from dangerous sect to state religion; PART II LATIN AND EUROPE; 26. Europe after Rome; 27. From Latin to the Romance languages; 28. Missionaries, Latin, and foreign languages; 29. Latin in Britain; 30. Latin in schools; 31. Speaking and spelling; 32. Books and scribes; 33. Saints and heretics; 34. The guardians of the heritage; 35. Poetry after antiquity; 36. Abelard and Heloise; 37. The thinkers; 38. The Renaissance; 39. Doctors and their language; 40. Linnaeus and Latin; 41. Physicists, chemists, and others; 42. Alchemy, witchcraft, and Harry Potter; 43. Loanwords and neologisms; 44. Latin and German; 45. Latin and French; 46. Latin and English; 47. Latin and us; PART III ABOUT THE GRAMMAR; 48. Introduction; 49. Pronunciation and stress; 50. Sentences, verbs and nouns; 51. Words and word classes; 52. Nouns; 53. Adjectives; 54. Pronouns; 55. THe forms of the verb; 56. Amandi and amanda; 57. How words are formed; Glossary of words and expressions; PART IV BASIC VOCABULARY; PART V COMMON PHRASES AND EXPRESSIONS; Suggested reading; Index