Diana Spencer is a professor of classics and the dean of Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences at the University of Birmingham (UK). Recent publications include contributions to The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Early Medieval Worlds and the Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement 39, Varro Varius: The Polymath of the Roman World.
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Acknowledgments A Roadmap for a Ruinous Text Introduction 1 Networking Varro 2 Romespeaking: Strategies for Citizens 3 Inspiring Latin 4 Oratio and the Read/Write Experience 5 As Old as the Hills 6 Powering Up the Community 7 A Family Affair 8 Varro's Fasti Conclusion: Ending Up with Varro Notes Bibliography Index
"Spencer's work hooks Varro back into the dominant threads of Latin studies over the past couple of decades and in so doing fills in a major gap in our understanding of the intellectual life of the Late Republic."--Erik Gunderson, University of Toronto "Spencer takes on De Lingua Latina anew, and rather than mining it for late Republican thoughts on Latin and its etymologies, she views it as a kind of 'guide' to Varro's Roman world, as told through a complex dance with that which the man loved most--his language."--Sarah Culpepper Stroup, University of Washington