Learning Latin the Ancient Way
Eleanor Dickey

• Tuesday 13 June 2017, 7.40PM to 8.30pm
• Free admission
  Booking required
• K/133, King's Manor, Exhibition Square (map)
• No wheelchair access

Event details

What was it like to learn a foreign language 2,000 years ago? What did the Romans teach learners about life and manners in Rome? Did they learn grammar? Why did they give beginners bilingual texts? What was it like to read from a papyrus roll or write on a wax tablet?

Eleanor Dickey of the University of Reading has conducted a ground-breaking study of language learning in antiquity, based on surviving textbooks and on fragments of students’ work preserved in the Egyptian desert. Join her to find out what was it like to read from a papyrus roll or write on a wax tablet. In this interactive session, Eleanor will explain how these ancient language-learning materials worked and provide a chance to try them out.

About the speaker

Eleanor Dickey is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading and a Fellow of the British Academy. She has published seven books on the Latin and Greek languages and how they were studied in antiquity, including Learning Latin the Ancient Way (Cambridge University Press 2016), and is the founder of the Reading Ancient Schoolroom.

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Books will be available to buy from the Waterstones' stall at this event.

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