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Do we actually know how the ancient Romans pronounced Latin words? Eric Kvaalen Les Essarts-le-Roi, France. We have three sources of information: languages that are descended from Latin; the Proto ...
Pool: Where did Latin get its words? Published 5:30 am Monday, October 2, 2023. By Frank T. Pool. Frank T. Pool. Nowadays there seems to be an upswell of attention to ancient Rome, ...
Nowadays there seems to be an upswell of attention to ancient Rome, especially among men. I am less interested in emperors and wars than in Stoic philosophy, the rise of Christianity in Late ...
A vast majority of ancient Latin and Greek texts have been lost. Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays, of which only seven have wholly survived.