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Subject(s)

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

Series

Wisconsin studies in classics. [More in this series]

Summary note

"In this strikingly original and playful work, Erik Gunderson examines questions of reading the past - an enterprise extending from antiquity to the present day. 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. Comprising notes on Roman and classical grammar, geometry, philosophy, and history it is a one-work overview of Latin scholarship, thought, and intellectual culture, a combination condensed library and cabinet of curiosities."--Jacket.

Notes

Translated from the Latin.

Bibliographic references

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

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Author's Preface: Verfremdungseffekt
• Other Preface: Again and Again
• Third Preface: Gellius' Preface
• VOLUME ONE
• 1. Authority
• 2. Logic
• 3. Usage
• 4. Index of Names
• 5. Index of Things
• VOLUME TWO
• 6. Books of Books
• 7. Authors of the Author
• 8. Readers of Readings
• Appendix: It was to Be/It is to Be
• Unplaced Fragments
• Spurious Fragments

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Other title(s)

• Project Muse UPCC books
• ebrary.

ISBN

• 9780299229702 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 029922970X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008012088

OCLC

223848749

RCP

H - S

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