Are dead languages ​​still alive? (Replay)

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By: Pascal Paradou

Is there still an interest in studying dead languages ​​in the 21st century? In school as in everyday life, Latin and ancient Greek hardly interest anyone. However, they have many advantages.

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Why revive interest in dead languages? How to teach Latin in a lively way?

Guests :
- Pierre Judet de La Combe , director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), author of The future of the ancients: daring to read the Greeks and the Latins (Albin Michel).
- Robert Delord , teacher of classical letters and president of the Arrête ton char! Association, author of Mordicus, let's not lose our Latin in editions, (Les Belles lettres).

► Read also: Vatican, Latin is not dead

Postponed from June 2 to 7, in Lyon, the 14th edition of the European Latin Greek Festival will take place, around the Metamorphoses (or The Golden Donkey) of Apuleius!

Musical programming : Rosa - Jacques Brel

And like every Wednesday, Lucie Bouteloup's column, to find on RFI Savoirs : The flea in the ear .

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