12-26-2011, 03:39 PM
Hello Jennifer!
You are right there is not much of the real ancient sources left as Europe's climate isn't very supportive in preserving on whatever the classic authors wrote onto, besides the inscription on gravestones columns and so on. Many manuscripts/books we have today survived within monasteries, or in the case of ancient greek authors were first translated into arabic and later into latin, cause it was the lingua franca of the church and the ruling class, later also used by the educated class.
In the case of interpretation. I had Latin for six years in high school/Gymnasium and as far as I can tell we translated it the same way, as the generations before us did it, cause the grammar is naturally the same as it was the last 2 millennia and we have to stay by its rules. The school-books may be more appealing for pupils today but the rest hasn't really changed the only thing that I imagine is different is the persons own style of translation.
Hope I could help you a bit! If i am wrong I am glad about every correction you or other members of this forum can give me.
Patrick D.
You are right there is not much of the real ancient sources left as Europe's climate isn't very supportive in preserving on whatever the classic authors wrote onto, besides the inscription on gravestones columns and so on. Many manuscripts/books we have today survived within monasteries, or in the case of ancient greek authors were first translated into arabic and later into latin, cause it was the lingua franca of the church and the ruling class, later also used by the educated class.
In the case of interpretation. I had Latin for six years in high school/Gymnasium and as far as I can tell we translated it the same way, as the generations before us did it, cause the grammar is naturally the same as it was the last 2 millennia and we have to stay by its rules. The school-books may be more appealing for pupils today but the rest hasn't really changed the only thing that I imagine is different is the persons own style of translation.
Hope I could help you a bit! If i am wrong I am glad about every correction you or other members of this forum can give me.
Patrick D.
Patrick D.
