Eleanor Dickey on Learning Latin the Ancient Way
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
Release date 23 June 2016
A version of this conversation is published in British Academy Review 28 (Summer 2016)
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