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Cloth with dustjacket. Condizione: Gut. XXIII, 436 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, ansonst ein tadelloses Exemplar / dust jacket slightly rubbed, otherwise a pristine copy. - 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 that 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, and 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 The opportunity has been taken to correct or excise errors, but otherwise nothing has been removed unless superseded by more recent publications. / CONTENTS Abbreviations and Modes of Reference Introduction PART I. THE MAN AND HIS BOOK 1. Life and Date Excursus: Gellius and Apuleius 2. Composition and Purpose 3. Language and Style 4. Presentation and Sources PART II. PRECEPTORS AND ACQUAINTANCE: 5. Teachers 6. Favorinus 7. Honoured Orators 8. Miscellaneous Contemporaries PART III. SCHOLARSHIP AND STUDY 9. Scholarly Reading 10. The Latin Language 11. Roman Orators and Poets 12. Greek: Language, Poets, Orators 13. History 14. Philosophy Excursus: Religion, Superstition, and the Supernatural 15. Other Sciences: Rhetoric, Law, Medicine 16. Other Values and Interests, Weak Spots, and Blind Spots Epilogue APPENDICES I. The Transmission and Publication of the Attic Nights II. Archaism and Atticism Bibliography Index Verborum Graecorum et Latinorum Index Locorum Potiorum Index Nominum et Rerum. ISBN 9780199263196 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 675.
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