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Subject(s)

• Civilization, Greco-Roman—Sources [Browse]
• Learning and scholarship—Rome [Browse]
• Gellius, Aulus—Noctes Atticae [Browse]

Series

Wisconsin studies in classics. [More in this series]

Summary note

This esoteric and original study focuses on the equally singular work of Aulus Gellius--a Roman author and grammarian (ca. 120-180 A.D.), possibly of African origin. Gellius's only work, the twenty-volume Noctes Atticae,is an exploding, sometimes seemingly random text-cum-diary in which Gellius jotted down everything of interest he heard in conversation or read in contemporary books.

Notes

Translated from the Latin.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-313) and indexes.

Language note

English

Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Editor's Title Page
• Editor's Preface
• Original Title Page
• The Author's Preface: Verfremdungseffekt
• The Other Preface: Again and Again
• The Third Preface: Gellius's Preface
• Table of Contents
• Volume One
• Book One: Authority
• Book Two: Logic
• Book Three: Usage
• Book Four: Index of Names
• Book Five: Index of Things
• Volume Two
• Book Six: Books of Books
• Book Seven: Authors of the Author
• Book Eight: Readers of Readings
• Appendix: It Was to Be/It Is to Be
• Unplaced Fragments
• Spurious Fragments
• Bibliography.

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ISBN

• 1-282-76592-2
• 9786612765926
• 0-299-22973-4

OCLC

• 669519778
• 927483545

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