Aulus Gellius
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Born | c. 125 AD |
Died | c. 180 AD |
Aulus Gellius (c. 125 – after 180 AD) was a
Name
Medieval manuscripts of the Noctes Atticae commonly gave the author's name in the form of "Agellius", which is used by
Life
The only source for the life of Aulus Gellius is the details recorded in his writings.
He returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office.[5] He was appointed by the praetor to act as an umpire in civil causes, and much of the time which he would gladly have devoted to literary pursuits was consequently occupied by judicial duties.[2]
Attic Nights
Gellius' only known work is the Attic Nights (
The work, deliberately devoid of sequence or arrangement, is divided into twenty books. All have survived except the eighth, of which only the index survives. The Attic Nights are valuable for the insight they afford into the nature of the society and pursuits of those times, and for its many excerpts from works of lost ancient authors.[5]
The Attic Nights found many readers in antiquity. Writers who used this compilation include
Editions
The
Translations
- George Herbert Nall, ed. (1921). Stories from Aulus Gellius. Elementary classics. London: Macmillan.
- The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius (Loeb Classical Library). Vol. 1. Translated by Rolfe, John Carew. Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press and William Heinemann. 1927 – via Internet Archive.; volume 2; volume 3
See also
Notes
- ^ René Marache (1967). "Introduction". Aulu-Gelle, Les nuits attiques. Livres I–IV. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. p. VII.
- ^ a b c d Ramsay, William (1867), "A. Gellius", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 2, Boston, p. 235, archived from the original on 2010-01-18, retrieved 2010-12-21
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b c Leofranc Holford-Strevens, "Towards a Chronology of Aulus Gellius", Latomus, 36 (1977), pp. 93–109
- ^ Leofranc Holford-Strevens (2003), Aulus Gellius: an Antonine scholar and his achievement, pp. 13–15
- ^ a b c d public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gellius, Aulus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 558. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ P. K. Marshall, "Aulus Gellius" in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 176
- ^ Unless otherwise indicated, this section is based on Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Aulus Gellius (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1988), pp. 241–244
- New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ISBN 0-19-814651-5.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wm Ramsay (1870). "A.Gellius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 235.
Further reading
- Anderson, Graham. (1994). "Aulus Gellius: a Miscellanist and His World," in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, vol. II.34.2. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter.
- Beall, S. (1997). "Translation in Aulus Gellius." The Classical Quarterly, 47(1), 215–226.
- Ceaicovschi, K. (2009). "Cato the Elder in Aulus Gellius." Illinois Classical Studies, (33–34), 25–39.
- Lakmann, Marie-Luise. (1995). Der Platoniker Tauros in der Darstellung des Aulus Gellius. Leiden, The Netherlands, and New York: Brill.
- Garcea, Alessandro. (2003). "Paradoxes in Aulus Gellius." Argumentation 17:87–98.
- Gunderson, Eric. (2009). Nox Philologiae: Aulus Gellius and the Fantasy of the Roman Library. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press.
- Holford-Strevens, Leofranc. (2003). Aulus Gellius: An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
- Holford-Strevens, Leofranc. (1982). "Fact and fiction in Aulus Gellius." Liverpool Classical Monthly 7:65–68.
- Holford-Strevens, Leofranc, and Amiel Vardi, eds. (2004). The Worlds of Aulus Gellius. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
- Howley, Joseph A. (2013). "Why Read the Jurists ?: Aulus Gellius on Reading Across Disciplines." In New Frontiers: Law and Society in the Roman World. Edited by Paul J. du Plessis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Howley, Joseph A. (2018). Aulus Gellius and Roman Reading Culture. Text, Presence, and Imperial Knowledge in the Noctes Atticae. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Johnson, William A. (2012). "Aulus Gellius: The Life of the Litteratus" In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire: A Study of Elite Communities. Classical Culture and Society. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
- Ker, James (2004). "Nocturnal Writers in Imperial Rome: The Culture of Lucubratio." Classical Philology, 99(3), 209–242.
- Keulen, Wytse. (2009). "Gellius the Satirist: Roman Cultural Authority in Attic Nights." Mnemosyne Supplements 297. Leiden, The Netherlands, and Boston: Brill.
- McGinn, Thomas A.J. (2010). "Communication and the Capability Problem in Roman Law: Aulus Gellius as Iudex and the Jurists on Child-Custody." RIDA 57, 265–298.
- Russell, Brigette. (2003). "Wine, Women, and the Polis: Gender and the Formation of the City-State in Archaic Rome." Greece & Rome, 50(1), 77–84
External links
- Works by Aulus Gellius at Perseus Digital Library
- Works by Aulus Gellius at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Aulus Gellius at Internet Archive
- Works by Aulus Gellius at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Attic Nights (Latin text: complete; English translation: Preface thru Book 13)
- Attic Nights (Latin text)
- Noctes atticae at Somni