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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Language: English
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Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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Mnemosyne, Supplements
297.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.
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Call Number: PA6391 .K48 2009
- Preliminary Material /
- W.H. Keulen
- Introduction /
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- Chapter One. Gellius the roman educationalist /
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- Chapter Two. Memory and authority /
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- Chapter Three. Saturnalian licence and socratic irony /
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- Chapter Four. Favorinus as a 'comic authority figure' /
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- Chapter Five. Exposing his own infamy: Avarice and unmanliness /
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- Chapter Six. Demonstration and refutation: 'Investigational rhetoric' /
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- Chapter Seven. Favorinus' controversial authority /
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- Chapter Eight. The imperial context of Gellius' authority /
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- Chapter Nine. Gellius' symbouleutic authority /
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- Chapter Ten. Comparative judgments in roman sites of memory /
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- Chapter Eleven. Comparative judgments in greek sites of memory /
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- Conclusion: Constructing cultural and political continuity /
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- Bibliography /
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- Index locorum /
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- Index nominum et rerum /
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- Index verborum latinorum et graecorum /
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- Supplements to Mnemosyne /
- W.H. Keulen.