A COMPANION TO THE LATIN LANGUAGE 1ST

This Companion provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Roman Republican history as it is currently practiced. Highlights recent developments, including archaeological discoveries, fresh approaches to textual sources, and the opening up of new areas of historical studyRetains the drama of the Republic’s rise and fallEmphasizes not just the evidence of texts and physical remains, but also the models and assumptions that scholars bring to these artefactsLooks at the role played by the physical geography and environment of ItalyOffers a compact but detailed narrative of military and political developments from the birth of the Roman Republic through to the death of Julius CaesarDiscusses current controversies in the fieldlight of modern linguistic theorySupplemented with illustrations covering the development of the Latin alphabet