Latin: Story of a World Language by Jürgen Leonhardt

Latin: Story of a World Language

Jürgen Leonhardt with Kenneth Kronenberg (Translator)

352 pages paperback 2009

3 editions

nonfiction history adventurous informative tense fast-paced
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The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries after Rome's fall, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries an...

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