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Holford-Strevens, Leofranc and Amiel Vardi (eds.): The Worlds of Aulus Gellius.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004. XVI, 392 p., ill. Original cloth with dust jacket.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed jacket, overall very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener Umschlag, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Part I. CONTEXTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS -- 1. Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Antonine Rome: Apuleius, Fronto, and Gellius by SIMON SWAIN -- 2. Gellius and Fronto on Loanwords and Literary Models: Their Evaluation of Laberius by ALESSANDRO GARCEA and VALERIA LOMANTO -- 3. Gellius the Etymologist: Gellius? Etymologies and Modern Etymology by FRANCO CAVAZZA -- 4. Aulus Gellius as a Storyteller by GRAHAM ANDERSON -- 5. Gellius and the Roman Antiquarian Tradition by ANDREW J. STEVENSON -- Part II. IDEOLOGIES -- 6. Genre, Conventions, and Cultural Programme in Gellius? Noctes Atticae by AMIEL VARDI -- 7. Educational Values by TERESA MORGAN -- 8. Gellian Humanism Revisited by STEPHEN M. BEALL -- 9. Gellius, Apuleius, and Satire on the Intellectual by WYTSE KEULEN -- Part III. RECEPTION -- 10. Recht as een Palmen-Bohm and Other Facets of Gellius? Medieval and Humanistic Reception by LEOFRANC HOLFORD-STREVENS -- 11. Gellius in the French Renaissance by MICHAEL HEATH -- 12. Conflict and Harmony in the Collegium Gellianum by ANTHONY GRAFTON -- Bibliography. - The contributors to this collection?the first in any language?on the second-century Roman miscellanist Aulus Gellius, whom St Augustine was to describe as ?a man of the most elegant style and abundant knowledge in all fields?, comprise a mix of established and younger scholars; they include Gellian experts looking out and specialists in other fields looking in, and employ both traditional and new approaches. In Part I, 'Contexts and Achievements?, the topics considered are: the implications for Gellius, his contemporary Apuleius, and the imperial tutor Cornelius Fronto of employing Greek in a Latin context; the differences between Fronto?s and Gellius? evaluations of the lively vulgarisms used by Laberius in his mimes; Gellius? linguistic skills as an etymologist; his literary skills as a narrator; his relation to the antiquarian tradition on which he drew so extensively. Part II, ?Ideologies?, begins with the expectations aroused by writing a miscellany; then, in two chapters redefining the concept of moral instruction, Gellius? claim to educate his readers and the humanisme gellien asserted by the late René Marache are shown to be tenable if correctly understood; lastly, his attitude to intellectuals is compared with that of Apuleius against a background of satirical tradition. The opening chapter of Part III, Reception?, considers the use made in the Middle Ages and afterwards of a morally improving passage of Gellius, together with false ascriptions to him of matter from other sources and evidence of his diffusion through manuscripts now lost. There follows a study of his presence in sixteenth-century France covering his editorial history and his service to scholarship and literature, above all Montaigne?s Essais; finally, he is found showing humanists how to accumulate information, display their learning, and conduct their quarrels, but also (and perhaps unexpectedly) stimulating scientific research. ISBN 9780199264827.

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