Text, Presence, and Imperial Knowledge in the Noctes Atticae
by
Joseph A. Howley
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Long a source for quotations, fragments, and factoids, the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius offers hundreds of brief but vivid glimpses of Roman intellectual life. In this book Joseph Howley demonstrates how the work may be read as a literary text in its own right, and discusses the rich evidence it...