What is it about?
The article explains the premise, the scope and the content of the book, which features forty-five authors discussed in the main body and over a hundred quoted in the appendix. At the same time it offers one of its entries, focused on an outstanding mainstream writer of the twentieth century, as an illustration of how the strength and ubiquity of Latin can be demonstrated in works of modern fiction.
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Why is it important?
The discussed work is one more item in a series of reference books, such as E. Christian Kopff’s The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition (1999) and R. J. Schork’s Latin and Roman Culture in Joyce (1997), whose common goal, despite different scopes, is to convince and reassure past, current and prospective Latin students about the significance and prevalence of the ancient language.
Perspectives
The author’s wish is that the message of the book reaches the administrators of colleges and secondary schools worldwide and makes them introduce, keep or reinstate Latin in their curricular as an important and indispensable element of modern Western culture.
Henryk Hoffmann
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This page is a summary of: Latin in Modern Fiction: Who Says It's a Dead Language?: Aldous Huxley, Classical Journal, February 2023, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/tcj.2023.0003.
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