Charlie Kerrigan is Research Fellow in the Department of Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He is author of Virgil’s Map (Bloomsbury, 2020) and blogs at Confabulations, part of the Living Latin Project at TCD.
This book provides a highly accessible, lucid, concise and enjoyable account of the Latin language, which is never monolithic, throughout history. -- Jinyu Liu, Acting Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History, Emory University, USA This is an excellent, exciting little book, providing an original and captivating history of Latin as a language of everyday people. While accessible and compelling, it is firmly rooted in recent, ground-breaking research in Latin linguistics, challenging biases about the supposed elitism of Latin. * Giuseppe Pezzini, Associate Professor of Latin Language & Literature, University of Oxford, UK *