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Aulus Gellius - An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement (Hardcover, Revised edition)
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Aulus Gellius - An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement (Hardcover, Revised edition)
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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 which 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. In this, the most comprehensive
study of Gellius in any language, Dr Holford-Strevens examines his
life, his circle of acquaintances, his style, his reading, his
scholarly interests, and his literary parentage, paying due
attention to the text, sense, and content of individual passages,
and to the use made of him by later writers in antiquity, the
Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and more recent times. It covers many
subject areas such as language, literature, history, law, rhetoric,
medicine; light is shed on a wide range of problems in Greek as
well as Latin authors, either in the main text or in the succinct
but wide-ranging footnotes. In this revised edition every statement
has been reconsidered and account taken of recent work by the
author and by others; an appendix has been added on the relation
between the literary trends of Latin (the so-called archaizing
movement) and Greek (Atticism) in the second century AD, and more
space has been given to Gellius' attitudes towards women, as well
as to recurrent themes such as punishment and embassies. The
opportunity has been taken to correct or excise errors, but
otherwise nothing has been removed unless superseded by more recent
publications.
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