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In this companion volume to their much-Ioved Alpha lo Omega (Godine, 1981), the Humez brothers turo their unique wit and intelligence from the Greek to the Roman alphabet.
Written in the sa me lively, anecdotal, and irreverent style (but always with impeccable scholarship) as its predecessor, A-B-C ET CETERA covers an abecedarian speetrum of Roman history and society - a wild and woolly range of faets and fancies you may have forgotten or never known. The book is arranged alphabetically; each chapter follows some of the Latin words that begin with a particular letter through their various linguistic peregrinations, taking detours along the way to examine the flora and fauna of Roman, and Romance, culture. The authors will initiate you into arcane mysteries, exploring everything from Vestal Virgins to unicorns to maledieta balloons, those euphemistic bubbles of comic-strip orthography where asterisks stand for the unprintable. They will clarify, at last (lux in tenebris!), the confounding complexities of Roman nomenclature, dating systems, and numbering; they will surprise and amuse you with their unorthodox glosses on Roman religion and festivals, Roman education, humor, slavery, government, politics, warfare, literature, et cetera.
A-B-C ET CETERA will fascinate, delight, and enlighten students and teachers, recent converts and confirmed Latin-lovers alike.
