| Gelliana: A Textual Companion to the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius Contributor(s): Holford-Strevens, Leofranc (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199693935 ISBN-13: 9780199693931 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Foreign Language Study | Latin |
| Dewey: 878.01 |
| LCCN: 2018962564 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" (0.95 lbs) 226 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Written by Leofranc Holford-Strevens to accompany his Oxford Classical Texts edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae, this volume presents more expansive discussions and explanations of choices of readings at various places in the text than would be possible within the narrow confines of the edition's apparatus criticus (in which all passages discussed in Gelliana are marked with an asterisk). The grounds adduced are generally grammatical in the modern sense of the word, concerning accidence, vocabulary, or syntax, but sometimes invoke palaeography, logic, or other matters of content. Previous scholars, and also translations, are frequently cited in order either to credit the person first on record as having understood the text correctly or to indicate the source of a current misinterpretation. The preliminary matter includes an extensive list, significantly expanded from that drawn up by Martin Hertz, of places where scribes have inadvertently corrupted the text through inappropriate importation of the Christian terms with which they were familiar, while a separate appendix contains corrections to and revisions of passages in the author's previously published monograph Aulus Gellius: An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement (OUP 2003, corrected paperback 2005) and article 'Recht as een Palmen-Bohm and other Facets of Gellius' Medieval and Humanistic Reception' in The Worlds of Aulus Gellius (co-edited with Amiel D. Vardi, OUP 2004). |