Apprendre le latin dans l’Égypte de l’Antiquité tardive: le role de la littérature de Rome

This paper offers an overview on how the Western educational model reached the Late Antique Eastern empire, and specifically Egypt, contributing to shape a renewed cultural identity where the literature of Rome had to find its place. Benefitting of an updated census and edition of a Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (CLTP) (forthcoming with CUP), they are explored both the technical literature and para-literature of a grammatical and educational kind and destination, and properly literary works as those of the scholastic canonic authors of the quadriga Messii (Terence and Virgil, Sallust and Cicero) and also those by authors who are known to have enjoyed a renewed appreciation in Late Antiquity (e.g. Livy, Juvenal). The focus stands in the role Latin literature played in teaching/learning Latin as a foreign language in such a multilingual and multicultural context as Late Antique Egypt.