Living with a dead language
Subtitle: my romance with Latin
By: Ann Patty
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781101980224
Subjects: Latin language; Study and teaching; Classicists; Biography
Description: After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored, she decided to challenge her word-loving brain through studying Latin at local colleges. Her study opened unexpected windows into her life, and along the way, she met an impassioned group of professors, students and classicists outside of academia who keep Latin very much alive. Written with humor, heart, and an infectious enthusiasm for words, Patty's book is an object lesson in how learning and literature can transform the past and lead to an unexpected future. --