Long Live Latin The Pleasures of a Useless Language

Nicola Gardini, Todd Portnowitz

eAudio - 2019

"It's a genuine pleasure to hear spoken Latin—lots of it, and by many of the great classical authors, including Cicero, Ovid, and Virgil—and to follow the story of Gardini's lifelong infatuation with a language that is nowhere and everywhere in our modern lives... This is an audiobook to appreciate on many levels, most of all, to hear the sound of Latin again, so familiar and so essential to the ear." — AudioFile Magazine A lively exploration of the joys of a not-so-dead languageFrom the acclaimed novelist and Oxford professor Nicola Gardini, a personal and passionate look at the Latin language: its history, its authors, its essential role in education, and its enduring impact on modern life—whether we call it &q...uot;dead" or not.What use is Latin? It's a question we're often asked by those who see the language of Cicero as no more than a cumbersome heap of ruins, something to remove from the curriculum. In this sustained... more