| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 436 pages) |
| Contents |
Part I. Man and His Book -- Life and date -- Composition and purpose -- Language and style -- Presentation and sources -- Part II. Preceptors and Acquaintances -- Teachers -- Favorinus -- Honoured orators -- Miscellaneous contemporaries -- Part III. Scholarship and Study -- Scholarly reading -- The Latin language -- Roman orators and poets -- Greek: language, poets, orators -- History -- Philosophy -- Other science: rhetoric, law, medecine -- Other values and interests, weak spots, and blind spots -- Epilogue -- Appendix I. The transmission and publication of the Attic Nights -- Appendix II, Archaism and Atticism |
| Summary |
Aulus Gellius originated the modern use of ‘classical’ and ‘humanities’. His Attic Nights, so named because they began as the intellectual pastime of winter evenings spent in a villa outside Athens, are a mine of information on many aspects of antiquity and a repository of much early Latin literature that would otherwise be lost; he took a particular interest in questions of grammar and literary style. The whole work is interspersed with interesting personal observations and vignettes of second-century life that throw light on the Antonine world. This study, the most comprehensive of Gellius in any language, examines his life, his circle of acquaintances, his style, his reading, his scholarly interests, and his place in literary tradition parentage; reference is made to his reception in later antiquity and beyond. It covers many subject areas such as language, literature, law, rhetoric, and medicine; it also examines Gellius's attitudes to women and the relation considered between the literary trends of Latin (the so-called archaizing movement) and Greek (Atticism) in the second century AD. The text, sense, and content of numerous individual passages are considered, and light shed on a wide range of problems in Greek as well as Latin authors |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-395) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gellius, Aulus. Noctes Atticae
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Noctes Atticae (Gellius, Aulus) fast (OCoLC)fst01358919 |
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Latin prose literature -- History and criticism
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Civilization -- Greek influences.
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Latin prose literature.
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Literature.
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Rome -- Civilization -- Greek influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115097
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Rome -- History -- Antonines, 96-192.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115140
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Attikē (Greece) -- In literature
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Athens (Greece) -- In literature
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Greece -- Athens.
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Greece -- Attikē.
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199263196 |
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0199263191 |
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9780191718878 |
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0191718874 |
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