Even if you are not a student of History, English or Philosophy, but are simply curious about Latin or are trying to complete the CSUS foreign language requirement, you can still benefit from a study of Latin. This study will enlarge your English vocabulary, increase your knowledge of the world, and show you how another culture viewed reality.
All students can benefit from a study of the Latin language.
From small beginnings, the military, political, and cultural power of Rome spread, first to the rest of Italy, then throughout the Mediterranean. By the second century after Christ, the Romans dominated all of Europe, western Asia, and North Africa. Roman writers such as Vergil, Horace, Livy, and Cicero became models of literary excellence for all succeeding generations. Later writers, even if they did not write in Latin themselves, were inspired by the literature of the Romans. The Romans' language, Latin, came to be used everywhere, largely displacing the native languages of France, Spain, the Balkans, North Africa, and parts of western Asia.