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Et tu, Brute? : the best Latin lines ever / Harry Mount and John Davie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mount, Harry, 1971- author.
- Davie, John, 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Latin philology.
- Latin language--Terms and phrases.
- Latin language.
- Latin language--Humor.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 263 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2022.
- Language Note:
- Text in English and Latin.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Writing on the Wall
- - Latin Graffiti, from Pompeii's Brothel to Herculaneum's Tavernas
- 2. Ruling Britannia
- - Roman Britain, from Londinium's First Bankers to Freezing Legionaries on Hadrian's Wall
- 3. Sex in Rome and the Rudest Poem in Latin
- 4. True Romance
- - the Great Latin Love Poets
- 5. Latin Jokes and Insults
- 6. Latin for Gardeners
- 7. Bathtime, Feasts and La Dolce Vita
- 8. Bread, Circuses and Gladiators
- 9. Plebs and Patricians
- - the Roman Class System
- 10. Empire and Emperors
- 11. The Divine Family
- - Religion and the Gods
- 12. Christian Conversion
- - How Christ Went from Roman Victim to Roman God
- 13. Vesuvius Erupts
- - Pliny Reports
- 14. What Did You Get for Saturnalia? Martial's Funny Festival Presents
- 15. Horace, the Sweetest Poet of All
- 16. Cicero on How to Grow Old Gracefully
- 17. Seneca's Stoic Guide to Life
- 18. Your Vade Mecum
- - the Latin
- -English Glossary
- 19. Roman Numerals.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781399400978
- 1399400975
- OCLC:
- 1346308013
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