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Aulus Gellius
An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement
Revised Edition
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
460 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-926319-6
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Hardback
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06 November 2003
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- The only comprehensive study of Aulus Gellius in any language
- Discusses Gellius' place in the history of European culture
- Covers a wide range of classical topics, Greek as well as Latin, in language, literature, history, law, rhetoric, and medicine
- A fully revised and updated new edition.
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 The opportunity has been taken to correct or excise errors, but otherwise nothing has been removed unless superseded by more recent publications.
Readership: Scholars and students of Greek and Latin literature.
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Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Consultant Scholar-Editor, Oxford University Press
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"... immensely erudite ... the leading general book on Gellius ... the book is informed by an infectious passion about words, languages, books, and ideas similar to that of Gellius himself." - Scripta Classica Israelica "We can be grateful for the publication of a second edition with an index verborum and an index locorum that now make this wealth of information available for convenient reference ... Congratulations are due for the improvement and reissuing of this delightfully rich and stimulating book." - Scripta Classica Israelica "This second edition remains the only comprehensive worthwhile study of Gellius ... The range of Holford-Strevens' scholarship is evident throughout ... it remains a
delight to share in Holford-Strevens' evident pleasure in his own scholarship and that of his subject." - The Journal of Classics Teaching "This is a book about language and about scholarship ... [Holford-Strevens] has produced a book that simultaneously is -and -is not- a modern academic monograph." - Jane Lightfoot, Times Literary Supplement "he genuinely loves his author" - Jane Lightfoot, Times Literary Supplement "this producer of an extraordinary mind" - Jane Lightfoot, Times Literary Supplement
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I. The Man and his Book
1: Life and Dates
2: Composition and Purpose
3: Language and Style
4: Presentation and Sources
II. Preceptors and Acquaintances
5: Teachers
6: Favorinus
7: Honoured Orators
8: Miscellaneous Contemporaries
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
15: Other Sciences: Rhetoric, Law, Medicine
16: Miscellaneous Interest, Weak Spots, and Blind Spots
Epilogue
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