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Ad Infinitum - A Biography of Latin (Paperback)
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Ad Infinitum - A Biography of Latin (Paperback)
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An absorbing, scholarly account of the history of the Latin
language, from its origins in antiquity to its afterlife in our own
time...Ad Infinitum treats its readers with the dignity of Roman
citizens.--The Wall Street Journal The Latin language has been the
one constant in the cultural history of the West for more than two
millennia. It has defined the way in which we express our thoughts,
our faith, and our knowledge of how the world functions, its use
echoing on in the law codes of half the world, in the terminologies
of modern science, and, until forty years ago, in the liturgy of
the Catholic Church. In his erudite and entertaining biography,
Nicholas Ostler shows how and why Latin survived and thrived even
as its creators and other languages failed. Originally the dialect
of Rome and its surrounds, Latin supplanted its neighbors to
become, by conquest and settlement, the language of all Italy, and
then of Western Europe and North Africa. After the empire
collapsed, spoken Latin re-emerged as a host of new languages, from
Portuguese and Spanish in the west to Romanian in the east, while a
knowledge of Latin lived on as the common code of European thought,
and inspired the founders of Europe's New World in the Americas. E
pluribus unum. Illuminating the extravaganza of its past, Nicholas
Ostler makes clear that, in a thousand echoes, Latin lives on, ad
infinitum.
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