Joseph B. Solodow
Autor von Latin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and the Romance Languages
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Joseph B. Solodow is Professor of Foreign Languages at Southern Connecticut State University and Lecturer in Classics at Yale University. He is the author of The Latin Particle Quidem and The World of Ovid's "Metmorphoses," and received the Modern Language Association's Scaglione Translation Prize mehr anzeigen for his rendering of G. B. Conte's history of Latin literature into English, Latin Literature: A History. weniger anzeigen
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To be sure, Sodolow’s text tries to be first a textbook and then a treatise on Roman history, but the two get intertwined many times. A beginner in Latin may indeed pick up a few new things here and veterans can get a little more from the historical asides. This book shows how Latin works in everyday prose, in written poetry, and even how it absorbed tricks from other languages over the years (much like English and many other languages). For a language book, this one actually clipped along rather well. The author’s intent is not to shove memorization tables down the reader’s throat, but to give the language a context for natural discussion and dissection. If you’re looking to learn Latin, you could do a lot worse than this one.… (mehr)