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The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyses their effect on how Latin literature is read. It argues that these metaphors have become idées fixes not only in the popular imagination but in the formation of Latin studies as a professional discipline. By reading with and more commonly against these metaphors, the book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin produced by many different sorts of writers from antiquity to the twentieth century.

Latin language --- Latin literature --- Roman literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Latin philology --- Study and teaching --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Rome --- Civilization --- Study and teaching. --- Latín --- Libros electrónicos --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Latin language. --- History and criticism. --- Classical languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Philologie latine --- Littérature latine --- Latin (Langue) --- History --- History. --- Etude et enseignement --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Théorie, etc --- Civilisation --- Arts and Humanities --- Latin language - Study and teaching --- Latin literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc --- Rome - Civilization - Study and teaching