Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
Rev.
ISBN:
9780674992153
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9780674992207
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9780674992344
Series Statement:
Loeb Classical Library 195
Uniform Title:
Noctes Atticae
Content:
Aulus Gellius (c. 123-170 CE) offers in Attic Nights (Gellius began to write these pieces during stays in Athens) a collection of short chapters about notable events, words and questions of literary style, lives of historical figures, legal points, and philosophical issues that served as instructive light reading for cultivated Romans, 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
Content:
v. I. Books 1-5 -- v. II. Books 6-13 -- v. III. Books 14-20
Note:
Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674992153(v.1)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674992207(v.2)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674992344(v.3)
Additional Edition:
Print version Gellius, Aulus Attic nights Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1927
Language:
English
Author information:
Rolfe, John Carew 1859-1943
Author information:
Gellius, Aulus 130-170
