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Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA talks about her book "Learning Latin the Ancient Way: Latin Textbooks from the Ancient World" (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and about what these sources can tell us about the ancient world.

Speakers:

Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA
Professor of Classics, University of Reading

Joseph Buckley
Language Programme, The British Academy (interviewer)

Recorded 4 April 2016.

A version of this conversation is published in British Academy Review 28 (Summer 2016)

Release date:
23 June 2016

Eleanor Dickey on Learning Latin the Ancient Way

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Eleanor Dickey on Learning Latin the Ancient Way

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