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| Author | : Wytse Hette Keulen |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004169865 |
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 | : Wytse Keulen |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2008-09-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 904744342X |
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 | : Joseph A. Howley |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2018-04-12 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1316510123 |
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 | : James Uden |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199387273 |
Based on author's dissertation, Columbia Univ., 2011.
| Author | : Warren S. Smith |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2010-02-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0472026291 |
Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage brings together the leading scholars of this fascinating body of literature. Their essays examine a variety of ancient and early medieval writers' cautionary and often eccentric marital satire beginning with Plautus in the third century B.C.E. through Chaucer (the only non-Latin author studied). The volume demonstrates the continuity in the Latin tradition which taps into the fear of marriage and intimacy shared by ancient ascetics (Lucretius), satirists (Juvenal), comic novelists (Apuleius), and by subsequent Christian writers starting with Tertullian and Jerome, who freely used these ancient sources for their own purposes, including propaganda for recruiting a celibate clergy and the promotion of detachment and asceticism as Christian ideals. Warren S. Smith is Professor of Classical Languages at the University of New Mexico.
| Author | : Leofranc Holford-Strevens |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2004-12-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0191532665 |
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 | : Shaun Tougher |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2020-11-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1441174419 |
Eunuchs tend to be associated with eastern courts, popularly perceived as harem personnel. However, the Roman empire was also distinguished by eunuchs – they existed as slaves, court officials, religious figures and free men. This book is the first to be devoted to the range of Roman eunuchs. Across seven chapters (spanning the third century BC to the sixth century AD), Shaun Tougher examines the history of Roman eunuchs, focusing on key texts and specific individuals. Subjects met include the Galli (the self-castrating devotees of the goddess the Great Mother), Terence's comedy The Eunuch (the earliest surviving Latin text to use the word 'eunuch'), Sporus and Earinus the eunuch favourites of the emperors Nero and Domitian, the 'Ethiopian eunuch' of the Acts of the Apostles (an early convert to Christianity), Favorinus of Arles (a superstar intersex philosopher), the Grand Chamberlain Eutropius (the only eunuch ever to be consul), and Narses the eunuch general who defeated the Ostrogoths and restored Italy to Roman rule. A key theme of the chapters is gender, inescapable when studying castrated males. Ultimately this book is as much about the eunuch in the Roman imagination as it is the reality of the eunuch in the Roman empire.
| Author | : Brian W. Breed |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2018-03 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1107189551 |
Illuminates the relationships between Lucilius' satires and the Roman world in which he wrote, by combining linguistic and literary approaches.
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| Publisher | : Barkhuis |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
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| ISBN | : 9077922660 |
| Author | : Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2022-10-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3110791919 |
This volume unites scholars of classical epigraphy, papyrology, and literature to analyze the documentary habit in the Roman Empire. Texts like inscriptions and letters have gained importance in classical scholarship, but there has been limited analysis of the imaginative and sociological dimensions of the ancient document. Individual chapters investigate the definition of the document in ancient thought, and how modern understandings of documentation may (mis)shape scholarly approaches to documentary sources in antiquity. Contributors reexamine familiar categories of ancient documents through the lenses of perception and function, and reveal where the modern understanding of the document departs from ancient conceptions of documentation. The boundary between literary genres and documentary genres of writing appears more fluid than prior scholarship had allowed. Compared to modern audiences, inhabitants of the Roman Empire used a more diverse range of both non-textual and textual forms of documentation, and they did so with a more active, questioning attitude. The interdisciplinary approach to the "mentality" of documentation in this volume advances beyond standard discussions of form, genre, and style to revisit the document through the eyes of Greco-Roman readers and viewers.
