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  Latin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Latin is also still used (drawing heavily on Greek roots) to furnish the names used in the scientific classification of living things.
Latin is a synthetic inflectional language: affixes (which most times encode more than one grammatical category) are attached to fixed stems to express gender, number, and case in adjectives, nouns, and pronouns, which is called declension; and person, number, tense, voice, mood, and aspect in verbs, which is called conjugation.
Latin itself, being a very old language, is far closer to Proto-Indo-European than are most modern Western European languages; it has, in fact, about the same relationship with PIE as modern Italian or French has to Latin.
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 Encyclopedia: Golden Age of Latin Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The golden age of Latin literature (Latinitas aurea) is a period consisting roughly of the time from approximately 75 BC to 14 AD, covering the end of the Roman Republic and the reign of Augustus Caesar.
In prose, Golden Age Latin is exemplified by Julius Caesar, whose Commentaries on the Gallic Wars display a laconic, precise, military style; and by Marcus Tullius Cicero, a practicing lawyer and politician, whose judicial arguments and political speeches, most notably the Catiline Orations, were considered for centuries to be the best models for Latin prose.
Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris) is a blanket term covering the vernacular dialects of the Latin language spoken mostly in the western provinces of the Roman Empire until those dialects, diverging still further, evolved into the early Romance languages — a distinction usually assigned to about the ninth century.
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 Latin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moreover, in the Western world, Latin was a lingua franca, the learned language for scientific and political affairs, for more than a thousand years, being eventually replaced by French in the 18th century and English in the late 19th.
Latin was once taught in most of the schools in Britain with academic leanings - perhaps 25% of the total [1].
Latin Vulgate The Latin and English of the Old and New Testaments in parallel, along with the Complete Sayings of Jesus in parallel Latin and English.
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 Silver Age of Latin literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Literature from the Silver age has traditionally, perhaps unfairly, been considered inferior to that of the Gold age.
Silver Latin itself may be subdivided further into two periods: a period of radical experimentation in the latter half of the first century AD, and a renewed Neoclassicism in the second century AD.
Some writers of the silver age include Petronius, Seneca, Phaedrus, Persius, Quintilian, Lucan, Statius, Tacitus, Martial, Juvenal, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, Aulus Gellius, and Apuleius.
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 Courses
Age of Herodotus (3) (GE:HU) P: GRK 3001 or consent of instructor.
Age of Augustus (3) (GE:HU) P: LATN 3001 or consent of instructor.
Silver Age Latin Literature (3) (GE:HU) P: LATN 3002 or consent of instructor.
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 Silver age of Latin literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In reference to Roman literature, the Silver age covers the first two centuries A.D. directly after the Golden age (which was the first century B.C., and the start of the first century A.D.) Literature from the Silver age is considered inferior to that of the Gold age.
Latin Language and Literature Annotated directory of Internet resources for the Latin language, including dictionaries, study helps, and Latin literature.
Latin American Literature at CSU A topic guide prepared by Joanne Gass, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, California State University, Fullerton.
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 Silver Age Sentinels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Silver Age of Comic Books is an informal name for the period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly in the superhero genre, that lasted roughly from the mid 1950s to the early 1970s.
During the Silver Age, the character make-up of superheroes evolved.
In reference to Roman literature, the Silver age covers the first two centuries A.D. directly after the Golden age (which was the first century B.C., and the start of the first century A.D.) Literature from the Silver age has traditionally, perhaps unfairly, been considered inferior to that of the Gold age.
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 Classical Latin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
What we call "Classical Latin" was, in fact, a highly stylized and polished written literary language selectively developed from early Latin, of which we have far fewer remains.
The earliest Latin literature, such as Cato the Elder, Plautus and to some extent Lucretius, differs from the Latin of the "Golden Age" to some degree.
The spoken Latin of the Roman Empire, especially from the second century forward, is generally called vulgar Latin.
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 MSN Encarta - Spanish Literature
Spanish literature does include a number of works written by Spanish citizens living outside of Spain during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) or during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco from 1939 through 1975.
An important period in Spanish literature began in the 16th century when Spain, along with other European countries, experienced a burst of intellectual activity in literature, art, and philosophy known as the Renaissance.
The literature of the Celtiberians of the southern part of the peninsula included epic poems and books of metrical laws, but it is now lost.
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 silver - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about silver
It occurs in nature in ores and as a free metal; the chief ores are sulphides, from which the metal is extracted by smelting with lead.
Silver is used ornamentally, for jewellery and tableware, for coinage, in electroplating, electrical contacts, and dentistry, and as a solder.
From silver lamps a thin blue smoke is streaming, And golden vases 'mid the feast are gleaming; Now sound the lutes in unison, Within the gates our lives are one.
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 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 94.07.02
The history of Latin literature would appear to a neutral observer to be a tale of humble beginnings, early success, modest progress, and then explosive growth and lasting success unexampled in history west of the Indus River.
The pattern familiar to generations of swotting graduate students from the Duffs and their ilk is one of a dim archaic past, a golden age, a silver age, and then (depending on the generosity and imagination of the narrator) perhaps a perfunctory tailpiece stretching past the age of Constantine as far as Boethius.
The revival of Latin literature in the fourth century is thus as deliberate and artificial as its birth had been.
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 Cambridge Proceedings by Continuum, ISBN 3856306099 And Latin Literature by E. J. Kenney, ISBN 0521273722   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The poets and prose writers of the first and early second centuries AD were not deterred by the towering stature of their Augustan predecessors from attempting new and often brilliant variations on the now traditional themes and genres.
The so-called 'Silver' Age of Latin literature has tended to be characterized in terms of dismissive or question- begging stereotypes - 'decadent', 'rhetorical', 'baroque', 'mannerist' - as a substitute for close critical argument.
Complementary to these central figures as giving the age its special character and atmosphere are the minor poets, the satirists, the scholars and rhetoricians, the lesser historians, epistolographers and technical writers, whose varied activity provides the background to the main developments.
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 Silver age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A silver age is a name often given to a particular period within a history, typically as a lesser and later successor to a golden age, the metal silver generally being valuable, but less than gold.
The original Silver Age was one of the five "Ages of Man" described by the ancient poet Hesiod.
These people lived for one hundred years as children without growing up, then they suddenly aged and died.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Silver Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ages of Man, in classical legend and poetry, those periods into which the history of humanity was divided.
The earliest was the Golden Age, an age of...
Latin Language, language of ancient Rome and the neighboring territory of Latium.
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 The Silver Age (from Latin literature) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The satirist Juvenal and the epigrammatist Martial belong to this Silver Age of Latin literature.
Latin literature enjoyed its “Silver Age” under the Antonines, with the majority of great authors, such as Tacitus, Juvenal, and Pliny the Younger, having begun their careers under Domitian.
Examples include the Silver Age of Latin literature, which began about AD 18 following the end of the Golden Age, and the Decadent movement at the end of the 19th century in France and England.
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 Silver Age, AD 18-133 (from Latin literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
When Rome fell, Latin remained the literary language of the Western medieval world until it was superseded by the Romance languages it had generated and by other modern languages.
Marked by civil peace and prosperity, the age reached its highest literary expression in poetry, a polished and sophisticated verse generally addressed to a patron or to...
Thus literature became deeply rooted in the history of the countries of Latin America.
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 Christine's Latin Webpage
It evolved into Latin and then was spoken mainly by the Romans in their city of Rome and the region around it.
Latin was now in larger use all over the central and southern areas of the peninsula (Abbott 9-11).
The result was a form of “corrupted” Latin and named it the lingua Romana, which was different from the lingua Latina, the classical dialect refined by the educated.
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 Silver age of Latin literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In reference to Roman literature the Silver age covers the first two centuries A.D. after the Golden age (which was the first century B.C. the start of the first century A.D.)
Literature from the Silver age is considered to that of the Gold age.
Roman Poetry: From the Republic to the Silver Age
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 Silver Age --  Encyclopædia Britannica
in Latin literature, the period from approximately AD 18 to 133, which was a time of marked literary achievement second only to the previous Golden Age (70 BC–AD 18).
By the 1st century AD political patronage of the arts begun in the Augustan Age (43 BC–AD 18) and a stifling reverence for the literature of the Golden Age, particularly for the poetry of Virgil, had led to...
in Latin literature, the period, from approximately 70 BC to AD 18, during which the Latin language was brought to perfection as a literary medium and many Latin classical masterpieces were composed.
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 Rome: Imperial Rome
This period was the period of the greatest political stability in Imperial Rome after the age of Augustus; when Marcus Aurelius broke the pattern and was succeeded by his son, Commodus (180-192), all hell broke loose again.
In fact, Lucan and his audience revel in melodramatic violence; in one scene, a soldier single-handedly fends off an entire army by serving as a human shield, standing his ground in spite of the dozens of spears and missiles in his body.
If there is a single theme running throughout all of the literature and philosophy of the period, it is precisely this issue of moral degeneracy.
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 Latin Literature
That Latin literature began to decline so soon after the stimulating Greek influence ceased to operate, was partly due to external causes; the empire began to fight for its existence before the end of the second century, and never afterwards gained a pause in the continuous drain of its vital force.
Classical Latin poetry was, as we have seen, written throughout in alien metres, to which indeed the language was adapted with immense dexterity, but which still remained foreign to its natural structure.
Quintilian's criticism implies throughout that the two literatures were on a footing of substantial equality; Cicero is sufficient for him, as Virgil is for Statius.
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 Latin
Emphasis will be on developing fluency in reading Latin, with study and exercise on particular points of grammar as required of each student.
The literature of the early Empire, with a study of the historical and social background.
Directed readings and study of a special topic in Latin language or literature, or in Roman history.
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Students should be ready to translate the Latin assigned for a given day, as well as being able to discuss the meaning of the text and any secondary material assigned.
The topic of the paper may be based on one author’s work (including texts not read in class) or on the genre of satire in general (including authors not read in class); the paper may be primarily a literary analysis or it may include analysis of social and cultural contexts.
The Latin of Martial and Juvenal is challenging, primarily because of vocabulary and idiom, but not impossible.
www.denison.edu /classics/jacobsen/LAT332A03syl.doc   (837 words)

  
 Carleton College: Classical Languages: Courses
Prerequisite: Latin 102 with a grade of at least C-; or appropriate score on the Latin placement exam.
Prerequisite: Latin 204 or equivalent; students with a strong high school background of three-four years may also register upon taking the Latin placement exam.
As part of their senior capstone experience, majors in the classics department will formulate a call for papers developing the current year's theme for a colloquium, and following standard guidelines of the field produce proposals ("abstracts") for their own papers to be presented in the winter term.
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 HNRS 171: ROMAN SATIRE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
One of the great contributions of ancient Rome to western literature is the development of the genre of satire.
In this course students will read two major poets of the Silver Age of Latin literature, representing comic realism and satiric wit: Martial and Juvenal.
Students will read substantial portions of the epigrams of Martial and the satires of Juvenal in the original Latin, as well as in translation, with added selections from other contemporary authors, such as Pliny the Younger.
www.denison.edu /honors/seminars/hnrs171a.html   (133 words)

  
 Volume II. Thebaid, Books 1-7 (Loeb Classical Library(R)) (Statius , D. R. Shackleton Bailey)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Born in Naples Statius (45?-96 A.D.) was one of the principle epic and lyric poets of the Silver Age of Latin literature during the reign of the Emperor Domitian.
His reputation was high during both his lifetime and through the Middle Ages, and he was actually considered to be second only to Virgil among Latin writer (although later critics dismissed him as a imitator of Virgil).
To be fair, Silver Age writers were preoccupied with the conventions of literary form, but it does require some effort to follow the narrative.
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 Statius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The poet's father taught with marked success at Naples and Rome, and from boyhood to age he proved himself a champion in the poetic tournaments which formed an important part of the amusements of the early empire.
He was born with exceptional talent, and his poetic expression is, with all its faults, richer on the whole and less forced, more buoyant and more felicitous, than is to be found generally in the Silver Age of Latin poetry.
Some phrases, such as "the untaught muse of high-souled Ennius" and "the lofty passion of sage Lucretius," are familiar words with all scholars.
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