Classical Studies 1000 Chapter : Classics 1000 Textbook Notes.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Christopher Brown

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The domination of one dialect over another is usually due to external rather than linguistic features. In the case of latin, roman military expansion caused it to become the common language of the italian peninsula, the western mediterranean, and the balkans. Liber: the inner part of the bark of a tree which even more ancient italians had used as a writing surface, meant to the romans anything that was written. The most striking feature of latin is its use of inflections, that is the changes in the form of a word to indicate, for example, gender, number, case, person, degree, voice, mood or tense. Rhyming in pairs are known as heroic couplets. (john dryden (1631-1700) and alexander pope (1688-1744) perfected this) The equivalent of our book was volume (volume), meaning roll . When i becomes before a vowel, it has the effect of an english y . Another greek metre, the hendecasyllable is widely used and has 11 syllables.