Ad Infinitum: A Biography Of Latin

The Latin language has been a constant in the cultural history of the West for over two millennia. It has shaped the way we think of ourselves and has been the foundation of our education for centuries. And yet Latin began life as the cumbersome dialect of a small southern Italian city-state. Its active use lasted three times as long as Rome’s Empire and lives on in the law codes of half the world and in terminologies of biology and medicine. In *Ad Infinitum*, the author of *Empires of the Word:A Language History of the World* examines the reasons why Latin made such a long-lasting impact on language, and how it managed to stay alive for two millennia despite the cultural superiority of Greek.

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