The Worlds of Aulus Gellius
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9294010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amiel D Vardi, Leofranc Holford‐Strevens (0009-0000-4671-7806, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Consultant Scholar-Editor, Oxford University Press), Amiel Vardi (Senior Lecturer in Classics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 392 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The worlds of Aulus Gellius (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199264827.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2107948254 |
| Open Library | OL17862759M |
| ISBN | 9780199264827 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
This collection of essays on the 2nd-century Roman miscellanist Aulus Gellius, the author of the Attic Nights, is the first multi-author study of his work in any language. It brings together the work of established and younger scholars with different specialities and approaches in order to study various facets both of Gellius' intellectual outlook and that of his later readers. The book is dived into three parts. Part I, ‘Contexts and Achievements’, examines the use of Greek by Gellius and other Romans, in particular the leading orator Fronto and Apuleius; the conflicting criteria of Fronto and Gellius for lexical choice outside the standard Latin vocabulary; Gellius' linguistic skills in etymology; his literary skills in narrative; and his relation to Roman antiquarianism. Part II, ‘Ideologies’, considers Gellius' work against the expectations aroused by writing a miscellany and his claim to offer moral education — which proves acceptable once stated in less than absolutist terms — and compares his attitude to intellectuals with that of Apuleius. Part III, ‘Reception’, reviews various aspects of Gellius' literary afterlife down to the 17th century, ranging from medieval florilegia and a baroque-era song, through false ascriptions and lost manuscripts, to his presence in Montaigne and other Renaissance French authors, humanism, and the Scientific Revolution
Afterlife · Art · Art history · Erasmus · Etymology · Humanism · Ideology · Literature · Miscellany · Narrative · Politics · Relation (database · The Renaissance · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Law · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · Aulus Gellius · Authors, latin · biography · Gellius, aulus · in literature · Latin Authors · Rome · Rome in literature
The Language of Roman Letters
Classical Revivals and “Pagan” Art
The Livian Revival
Conclusion
The Frigidus
Quintilian, Pliny, Tacitus
Correctors and Critics II
The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus I
The Poem Against the Pagans
The “Pagan” Literary Revival
The Real Circle of Symmachus
Pagan Converts
Pagan Scholarship
Pagan Writers
Correctors and Critics I
Greek Texts and Latin Translation
From Constantius to Theodosius
Priests and Initiates
The Historia Augusta
Other Christian Verse Invectives
Macrobius and the “Pagan” Culture of his Age
The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus II
Pagans and Polytheists
Seeing Demons
‹Vielwisserei lehrt keine Einsicht› (Herakl. DK 22 B 40)
Aulus Gellius and Roman Reading Culture
The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
A Madman at the Funeral of the Past
Antiquarianism, philology, and translatio studii in the epistolary translations of Sir John Hobart and Nicholas Bacon
Cicero and Roman Education
Galen and Libraries in the Peri Alupias
Sympathy with the Allies? Abusive Magistrates and Political Discourse in Republican Rome
Representations of Intellectual Community in Plutarch, Pliny the Younger and Aulus Gellius
Monumenta rerum ac disciplinarum
Lucian, Fronto, and the Absence of Contemporary Historiography under the Antonines
The Last Pagans of Rome
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2023 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |