Historia y tradición en la enseñanza y aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras en Europa (III): Roma.

Abstract

Rome is the main theme of the current study, in which we continue the two articles published in the two previous numbers of this review. These two articles were the starting point of our story of the history and tradition of foreign language teaching and learning throughout Europe.

Following a chronological order which ranges across ten centuries from Rome’s first steps towards Latin Hellenism in the Classical Ages to the Late Classical Ages, the current chapter of our story of the history and tradition of foreign language teaching in Europe deals with the two main features which, together with all the aspects related to them, must be taken into account: the Roman’s lack of interest in other languages, except Greek, on the one hand, and, on the other, the influence of the Greek language and civilisation both in Roman education and in Latin Linguistics.