Archibald E.P., Brockliss W. Learning Latin and Greek from Antiquity to the Present

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 248 p. — (Yale Classical Studies 37). — ISBN: 1107051649This 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.List of illustrations page
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Learning me your language
Papyri and efforts by adults in Egyptian villages to write Greek
Teaching Latin to Greek speakers in antiquity
Servius’ Greek lessons
Pelasgian fountains: learning Greek in the early Middle Ages
Out of the mouth of babes and Englishmen: the invention of the vernacular grammar in Anglo-Saxon England
First steps in Latin: the teaching of reading and writing in Renaissance Italy
The teaching of Latin to the native nobility in Mexico in the mid-1500s: contexts, methods, and results
Ut consecutivum under the Czars and under the Bolsheviks
Latin for girls: the French debate
Women’ s education and the classics
Solitary perfection? The past, present, and future of elitism in Latin education
Exclusively for everyone – to what extent has the Cambridge Latin Course widened access to Latin?
Epilogue

Index