The Worlds of Aulus Gellius

by Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Amiel Vardi

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199264827
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/24/2005
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 5.80(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Leofranc Holford-Strevens is Consultant Scholar-Editor at Oxford University Press. Amiel Vardi is Senior Lecturer in Classics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Table of Contents

I. Contexts and Achievements1. Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Antonine Rome: Apuleius, Fronto, and Gellius, Simon Swain2. Gellius and Fronto on Loanwords and Literary Models: Their Evaluation of Laberius, Alessandro Garcea and Valeria Lomanto3. Gellius the Etymologist: Gellius' Etymologies and Modern Etymology, Franco Cavazza4. Aulus Gellius as a Storyteller, Graham Anderson5. Gellius and the Roman Antiquarian Tradition, Andrew J. StevensonII. Ideologies6. Gellius ‘Noctes Atticae': Genre, Conventions, and Cultural Programme, Amiel Vardi7. Educational Values in Gellius, Teresa Morgan8. Gellian Humanism Revisited, Stephen M. Beall9. Gellius, Apuleius, and Satire on the Intellectual, Wytse KeulenIII. Reception10. ‘Recht as een Palmen-Bohm' and Other Facets of Gellius' Medieval and Humanistic Reception, Leofranc Holford-Strevens11. Gellius in the French Renaissance, Michael Heath12. Conflict and Harmony in the ‘Collegium Gellianum', Anthony Grafton