Learning Latin and Greek from Antiquity to the Present

Elizabeth P. Archibald, William Brockliss, Jonathan Gnoza

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781107051645
• eBook ISBN:
  9781139990639
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Ancient Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This volume provides a unique overview of the broad historical, geographical and social range of Latin and Greek as second languages. It elucidates the techniques of Latin and Greek instruction across time and place, and the contrasting socio-political circumstances that contributed to and resulted from this remarkably enduring field of study. Providing a counterweight to previous studies that have focused only on the experience of elite learners, the chapters explore dialogues between center and periphery, between pedagogical conservatism and societal change, between government and the governed. In addition, a number of chapters address the experience of female learners, who have often been excluded from or marginalized by earlier scholarship.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1 Introduction: "Learning me your language"
• Chapter 2 Papyri and efforts by adults in Egyptian villages to write Greek
• Chapter 3 Teaching Latin to Greek speakers in antiquity
• Chapter 4 Servius' Greek lessons
• Chapter 5 Pelasgian fountains: learning Greek in the early Middle Ages
• Chapter 6 Out of the mouth of babes and Englishmen: the invention of the vernacular grammar in Anglo-Saxon England
• Chapter 7 First steps in Latin: the teaching of reading and writing in Renaissance Italy
• Chapter 8 The teaching of Latin to the native nobility in Mexico in the mid-1500s: contexts, methods, and results
• Chapter 9 Ut consecutivum under the Czars and under the Bolsheviks
• Chapter 10 Latin for girls: the French debate
• Chapter 11 Women's education and the classics
• Chapter 12 "Solitary perfection?" The past, present, and future of elitism in Latin education
• Chapter 13 Exclusively for everyone - to what extent has the Cambridge Latin Course widened access to Latin?
• Chapter 14 Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index