Gellius the satirist : Roman cultural authority in Attic nights /

This monograph presents an original portrait of the second-century miscellanist Aulus Gellius, based on a detailed reading of Attic Nights against its contemporary background. Highlighting Gellius' use of humour and irony in his portrayals of controversial celebrities such as Favorinus and Hero...

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Main Author: Keulen, Wytse Hette.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2009.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 297.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

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505 0 0 |t Preliminary Material /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Introduction /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Chapter One. Gellius the roman educationalist /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Chapter Two. Memory and authority /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Chapter Three. Saturnalian licence and socratic irony /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Chapter Four. Favorinus as a 'comic authority figure' /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Chapter Five. Exposing his own infamy: Avarice and unmanliness /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Chapter Six. Demonstration and refutation: 'Investigational rhetoric' /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Chapter Seven. Favorinus' controversial authority /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Chapter Eight. The imperial context of Gellius' authority /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Chapter Nine. Gellius' symbouleutic authority /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Chapter Ten. Comparative judgments in roman sites of memory /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Chapter Eleven. Comparative judgments in greek sites of memory /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Conclusion: Constructing cultural and political continuity /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Bibliography /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Index locorum /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Index nominum et rerum /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Index verborum latinorum et graecorum /  |r W.H. Keulen --   |t Supplements to Mnemosyne /  |r W.H. Keulen. 
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