Aulus Gellius

Author : Joseph A. Howley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316510124

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Aulus Gellius and Roman Reading Culture by Joseph A. Howley Pdf

Long a source for quotations, fragments, and factoids, the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius offers hundreds of brief but vivid glimpses of Roman intellectual life. In this book Joseph Howley demonstrates how the work may be read as a literary text in its own right, and discusses the rich evidence it provides for the ancient history of reading, thought, and intellectual culture. He argues that Gellius is in close conversation with predecessors both Greek and Latin, such as Plutarch and Pliny the Elder, and also offers new ways of making sense of the text's 'miscellaneous' qualities, like its disorder and its table of contents. Dealing with topics ranging from the framing of literary quotations to the treatment of contemporary celebrities who appear in its pages, this book offers a new way to learn from the Noctes about the world of Roman reading and thought.

Author : Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191514683

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Aulus Gellius by Leofranc Holford-Strevens Pdf

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.

Author : Aulus Gellius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:718049629

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The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius by Aulus Gellius Pdf

Author : Aulus Gellius
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 2370 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786563774

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Delphi Complete Works of Aulus Gellius - 'The Attic Nights' (Illustrated) by Aulus Gellius Pdf

Composed during the nights of an Attic winter, the sole surviving work of Aulus Gellius, the second century Latin author and grammarian, is an intriguing compendium of notes covering philosophy, history, biography and questions of grammar. ‘Attic Nights’ offers a valuable insight into the works of lost authors and the manners and occupations of Roman society. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin texts. This comprehensive eBook presents Aulus Gellius’ complete extant works, with relevant illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Aulus Gellius’ life and works * Features the complete extant works of Aulus Gellius, in both English translation and the original Latin * Concise introductions to the ‘Attic Nights’ * Includes John C. Rolfe’s translation previously appearing in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Aulus * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the sections you want to read with individual contents tables * Provides a special dual English and Latin text, allowing readers to compare the sections paragraph by paragraph – ideal for students * Features a bonus biography – discover Aulus Gellius’ ancient world * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to explore our range of Ancient Classics titles or buy the entire series as a Super Set CONTENTS: The Translation THE ATTIC NIGHTS The Latin Text CONTENTS OF THE LATIN TEXT The Dual Text DUAL LATIN AND ENGLISH TEXT The Biography LIFE OF AULUS GELLIUS by G. H. Nall Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Author : Erik Gunderson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299229733

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Nox Philologiae by Erik Gunderson Pdf

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. Gunderson tackles Gellius with exuberance, placing him in the larger culture of antiquarian literature. Purposely echoing Gellius’s own swooping word-play and digressions, he explores the techniques by which knowledge was produced and consumed in Gellius’s day, as well as in our own time. The resulting book is as much pure creative fun as it is a major work of scholarship informed by the theories of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Derrida.

Author : Leofranc Holford-Strevens,Amiel Vardi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191532665

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The Worlds of Aulus Gellius by Leofranc Holford-Strevens,Amiel Vardi Pdf

This is the first collection of essays in any language on Aulus Gellius; its contributors, both established and younger scholars, include Gellian experts looking out with specialists in other fields looking in; they combine traditional and new approaches. Subjects range from the bilingual culture in which Gellius wrote, through his stylistic judgements, his skills in etymology and narrative, his relation to the antiquarian tradition, the generic expectations of miscellany, his claim to educate his readers, the theory of 'Gellian humanism', and his attitude towards intellectuals, to his reception in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Scientific Revolution.

Author : Wytse Hette Keulen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004169869

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Gellius the Satirist by Wytse Hette Keulen Pdf

Noting previously unrecognised allusions to literary works and contemporary events, this book presents an original portrait of the miscellanist Aulus Gellius ("Attic Nights") as a satirical writer and a Roman intellectual working within the cultural milieu of Antonine Rome.

Author : Aulus Gellius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6HJ5

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Stories from Aulus Gellius by Aulus Gellius Pdf

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Society for Classical Studies
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780190224592

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Cicero's De Provinciis Consularibus Oratio by Marcus Tullius Cicero Pdf

Perhaps no other single Roman speech exemplifies the connection between oratory, politics and imperialism better than Cicero's De Provinciis Consularibus, pronounced to the senate in 56 BC. Cicero puts his talents at the service of the powerful triumviri (Caesar, Crassus and Pompey), whose aims he advances by appealing to the senators' imperialistic and chauvinistic ideology. This oration, then, yields precious insights into several areas of late republican life: international relations between Rome and the provinces (Gaul, Macedonia and Judaea); the senators' view on governors, publicani (tax-farmers) and foreigners; the dirty mechanics of high politics in the 50s, driven by lust for domination and money; and Cicero's own role in that political choreography. This speech also exemplifies the exceptional range of Cicero's oratory: the invective against Piso and Gabinius calls for biting irony, the praise of Caesar displays high rhetoric, the rejection of other senators' recommendations is a tour de force of logical and sophisticated argument, and Cicero's justification for his own conduct is embedded in the self-fashioning narrative which is typical of his post reditum speeches. This new commentary includes an updated introduction, which provides the readers with a historical, rhetorical and stylistic background to appreciate the complexities of Cicero's oration, as well as indexes and maps.

Author : Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei,Sean Gurd
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781947447813

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Pataphilology by Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei,Sean Gurd Pdf

What do the bizzare etymologies of Jean-Pierre Brisset, made-up languages for literary fiction, The Dialectic of Enlightenment, Latin grammarians, Horace's Epodes, and the Papyrus of Ani have in common? Nothing! Taken together they provide an unusually coherent picture of a hitherto unacknowledged non-tradition of linguistic investigation. If pataphysics is the science of the singular, the unparallelled, the exception that has no rule, pataphilology is what gets it there, the singularity of singularities. It is the mode in which exceptions become exceptional, itself an unrepeatable intervention in the language. - Back cover.

Author : Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0199693935

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Gelliana by Leofranc Holford-Strevens Pdf

Written by Leofranc Holford-Strevens to accompany his Oxford Classical Texts edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae, this volume presents more expansive discussions and explanations of choices of readings at various places in the text than would be possible within the narrow confines of the edition's apparatus criticus (in which all passages discussed in Gelliana are marked with an asterisk). The grounds adduced are generally grammatical in the modern sense of the word, concerning accidence, vocabulary, or syntax, but sometimes invoke palaeography, logic, or other matters of content. Previous scholars, and also translations, are frequently cited in order either to credit the person first on record as having understood the text correctly or to indicate the source of a current misinterpretation. The preliminary matter includes an extensive list, significantly expanded from that drawn up by Martin Hertz, of places where scribes have inadvertently corrupted the text through inappropriate importation of the Christian terms with which they were familiar, while a separate appendix contains corrections to and revisions of passages in the author's previously published monograph Aulus Gellius: An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement (OUP 2003, corrected paperback 2005) and article 'Recht as een Palmen-Bohm and other Facets of Gellius' Medieval and Humanistic Reception' in The Worlds of Aulus Gellius (co-edited with Amiel D. Vardi, OUP 2004).

Author : H. L. Levy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989-09-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780226476018

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A Latin Reader for Colleges by H. L. Levy Pdf

Selections from Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights, The Lives of Nepos, Phaedrus' Fables in verse, and some Caesar are carefully aimed to interest and challenge, but not overtax, the college student who is not yet ready for complicated readings in Latin.

Author : Publius Syrus,D. Lyman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
ISBN : UIUC:30112064728220

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The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave by Publius Syrus,D. Lyman Pdf

Author : Aulus Gellius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Latin essays
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048473495

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Stories from Aulus Gellius by Aulus Gellius Pdf

Author : Peggy L. Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132196218

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The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius by Peggy L. Chambers Pdf

This classroom-tested, accessible text will motivate second-year Latin students to continue their study. Aulus Gellius, a well-educated nobleman, began his observations during the long winter nights spent in Attica. These selections touch on diverse aspects of Roman culture and can be easily understood and translated by intermediate students.