edited by Leofranc Holford-Strevens and Amiel Vardi.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
xvi, 392 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-373) and indexes.
Bilinugalism and biculturalism in Antonine Rome : Apuleius, Fronto, and Gellius / Simon Swain -- Gellius and Fronto on loanwords and literary models : their evaluation of Laberius / Alessandro Garcea and Valeria Lomanto -- Gellius the etymologist : Gellius's etymologies and modern etymology / Franco Cavazza -- Aulus Gellius as a storyteller / Graham Anderson -- Gellius and the Roman antiquarian tradition / Andrew J. Stevenson -- Genre, conventions, and cultural programme in Gellius's Noctes Atticae / Amiel Vardi -- Educational values / Teresa Morgan -- Gellian humanism revisited / Stephen M. Beall -- Gellius, Apuleius, and satire on the intellectual / Wytse Keulen -- Recht as een Palmen-Bohn and other facets of Gellius's medieval and humanistic reception / Leofranc Holford-Strevens -- Gellius in the French Renaissance / Michael Heath -- Conflict and harmony in the Collegium Gellianum / Anthony Grafton.
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"Aulus Gellius originated the modern use of 'classical' and 'humanities.' This study examines his life and writings"--Provided by publisher.