Long live Latin : the pleasures of a useless language /
Gardini shares his deep love for Latin and encourages us to engage with a civilization that has never ceased to exist, because it's here with us now, whether we know it or not. Even readers without a single lick of Latin grammar can discover how this language is still capable of restoring our s...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ode to a useless language
- A home
- What is Latin?
- Which Latin?
- A divine alphabet
- Understanding Latin with Catullus
- Cicero's star-studded sky
- Ennius's ghost
- Caesar, or the measures of reality
- The power of clarity : Lucretius
- The meaning of sex : back to Catullus
- Syntactic goose bumps, or Virgil's shivering sentences
- The master of diffraction, Tacitus, and Sallust's brevity
- Ovid, of the end of identity
- Breathing and creaking : reflection of Livy
- The work umbra : Virgil's Eclogues
- Seneca, or the serenity of saying it all
- Deviances and dental care : Apuleius and Petronius
- Brambles, chasms, and memories : Augustine's linguistic reformation
- The duty of self-improvement : Juvenal and satire
- The loneliness of love : Propertius
- More on happiness : the lesson of Horace
- Conclusion and exhortation : study Latin!