Betrouwbaar Latein ist tot, es lebe Latein! Kleine Geschichte einer grossen Sprache. – STROH, W.,

To release one’s book with a major non-academic publishing house and reach the best seller list (?) may sound like a classicist’s wildest dream, but ‘Latein ist tot, es lebe Latein’ (Latin is dead, long live Latin) shows that this dream can indeed come true. Under this somewhat cumbersome title lies hidden one of the most entertaining and illustrative, and at the same time comprehensive, histories of the Latin language from the time of antiquity until today. The author has gained cult status among German ac…