Guardians of Language

Guardians of Language
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 556
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ISBN-10 : 0520212258
ISBN-13 : 9780520212251
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Book Synopsis Guardians of Language by : Robert A. Kaster

Download or read book Guardians of Language written by Robert A. Kaster and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kaster's book is both rich in its deployment of an extraordinarily wide range of little-known material and original in its approach to the subject. . . . There is no question at all that this book will be of great value to specialists in late antiquity, to historians of education, and to classicists in general. It will be a fundamental work in the field."--James E. G. Zetzel


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