The Worlds of Aulus Gellius [Hardcover]

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.

I. Contexts and Achievements
1. Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Antonine Rome: Apuleius, Fronto, and Gellius,Simon Swain
2. Gellius and Fronto on Loanwords and Literary Models: Their Evaluation of Laberius,Alessandro Garcea and Valeria Lomanto
3. Gellius the Etymologist: Gellius' Etymologies and Modern Etymology,Franco Cavazza
4. Aulus Gellius as a Storyteller,Graham Anderson
5. Gellius and the Roman Antiquarian Tradition,Andrew J. Stevenson
II. Ideologies
6. Gellius `Noctes Atticae': Genre, Conventions, and Cultural Programme,Amiel Vardi
7. Educational Values in Gellius,Teresa Morgan
8. Gellian Humanism Revisited,Stephen M. Beall
9. Gellius, Apuleius, and Satire on the Intellectual,Wytse Keulen
III. Reception
10. `Recht as een Palmen-Bohm' and Other Facets of Gellius' Medieval and Humanistic Reception,Leofranc Holford-Strevens
11. Gellius in the French Renaissance,Michael Heath
12. Conflict and Harmony in the `Collegium Gellianum',Anthony Grafton

Leofranc Holford-Strevensis Consultant Scholar-Editor at Oxford University Press.Amiel Vardiis Senior Lecturer in Cll#”