The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek

Author: Marcolongo Andrea, translated from the Italian by Will Schutt
Title: The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek
Publisher: New York: Europa Editions
Date: 2016
Pages: 205
ISBN13: 978-1-60945-545-3
Readership level: General, Graduate & Faculty, Undergraduate
Genre: Nonfiction

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For word nerds, language loons, and grammar geeks, an impassioned and informative literary leap into the wonders of the Greek language. Here are nine ways Greek can transform your relationship to time and to those around you, nine reflections on the language of Sappho, Plato, and Thucydides, and its relevance to our lives today. This book will leave readers with a new passion for a very old language, and some epic reasons to love Greek. The ingenious language is a love song dedicated to the language of history's greatest poets, philosophers, adventurers, lovers, adulterers, and generals. Greek, as Marcolongo recounts in her buoyant and entertaining prose, is unsurpassed in its beauty and expressivity; knowing a little more about how the language works offers us new ways of seeing the world and our place in it.