Learning Latin and Greek from Antiquity to the Present
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781107051645
Subjects: Latin language, study and teaching; Greek language, study and teaching; Greek language, history
Description: "This volume provides a unique overview of the broad historical, geographical and social range of Latin and Greek as second languages. It elucidates the techniques of Latin and Greek instruction across time and place, and the contrasting socio-political circumstances that contributed to and resulted from this remarkably enduring field of study. Providing a counterweight to previous studies that have focused only on the experience of elite learners, the chapters explore dialogues between center and periphery, between pedagogical conservatism and societal change, between government and the governed. In addition, a number of chapters address the experience of female learners, who have often been excluded from or marginalized by earlier scholarship."--