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Lucretius and the Transpadanes
By (Author) Louise Adams Holland
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
871.01
Hardback
170
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
397g
In the absence of tape recordings from antiquity, we have a limited knowledge of how classical Latin prose or verse sounded as it was rendered orally. Yet we do know that the spoken word varied greatly from place to place, regardless of how much uniformity the written language maintained. Louise Adams Holland considers the geographical basis for th