Attic Nights, Volume I
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Attic Nights, Volume I
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Vol. 2 unrevised ed., originally published 1927.
Aulus Gellius (ca. 123–170 CE) is known almost wholly from his Noctes Atticae, Attic Nights, so called because it was begun during the nights of an Attic winter. The work collects in twenty books (of Book VIII only the index is extant) interesting notes covering philosophy, history, biography, all sorts of antiquities, points of law, literary criticism, and lexicographic matters, explanations of old words and questions of grammar.
The work is valuable because of its many excerpts from other authors whose works are lost; and because of its evidence for people's manners and occupations. Some at least of the dramatic settings may be genuine occasions.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Attic Nights is in three volumes.
Series: Loeb Classical Library
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780674992153
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 January 1927
Country: United States
Imprint: LOEB
Illustration: Indexes
Contributors:
- Translated by J. C. Rolfe
- Translated by John Carew Rolfe
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 108.0mm
Height: 162.0mm
Weight: 386g
Pages: 528
About the Author
John Carew Rolfe (1859–1943) taught at Cornell, Harvard, and the Universities of Michigan and Pennsylvania.
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