Aulus Gellius (125–180)
Author of Attic nights, books 1-5
About the Author
An engaging writer of the Antonine period, Aulus Gellius was a man of wide interests and great admiration for Greek culture. His Attic Nights is a collection of absorbing short chapters about notable events, words and questions of literary style, lives of historical figures, points of law, and show more philosophical issues that served as instructive light reading for the cultivated Roman. The work's title derives simply from the fact that Gellius began to write these pieces during stays in Athens. Variety adds to the charm of the miscellany: the author makes use of reminiscence as a literary form, dramatizations, character sketches, dialogues, extensive quotations from other writers (many from works now lost). He was long considered a model of the perennial humanist. show less
Works by Aulus Gellius
Delphi Complete Works of Aulus Gellius - 'The Attic Nights' (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 70) (2016) 12 copies
Stories from Aulus Gellius, Being Selections and Adaptations from the Noctes Atticae (0177) 4 copies
Attikai éjszakák 3 copies
Attikai éjszakák 2 copies
By Gellius Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Volume III, Books 14-20 (Loeb Classical Library No. 212) [Hardcover] (1926) 2 copies
Le notti attiche 1 copy
The Attic Nights III 1 copy
Le notti attiche. Testo latino a fronte. Con Contenuto digitale (fornito elettronicamente), 2 tomi (2017) 1 copy
Les nits àtiques, vol. 1 1 copy
Les nits àtiques, vol. 2 1 copy
Аттические ночи (кн. 11-20) 1 copy
Nuits attiques t.3 l16-20 1 copy
The Attic Nights II 1 copy
The Attic Nights I 1 copy
Notti attiche: Libri I-X 1 copy
Les nuits attiques 1 copy
Nowele Rzymskie — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 125
c. 125 AD - Date of death
- 180
after 180 AD - Gender
- male
- Occupations
- Schriftsteller
- Nationality
- Roman Empire
- Map Location
- Italy
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I typically love 'grab-bag' types of books and this is definitely one of those ... unfortunately (for me, anyway) the grabbings here are more often than not Latin-usage items. These are not uninteresting, but are of pretty limited interest if you don't know Latin and have no desire to learn it or learn anything about it.
One of the more interesting items that is NOT linguistic in nature is what is (apparently -- I checked Wikipedia) the first appearance of the story of "Androcles and the show more Lion" (though it's "Androclus" here). Overall this work reminds me a bit of Macrobius' "Saturnalia" where, again, the goings-on most often circle around weird Latin usages in Vergil, and so on. Not bad. show less
One of the more interesting items that is NOT linguistic in nature is what is (apparently -- I checked Wikipedia) the first appearance of the story of "Androcles and the show more Lion" (though it's "Androclus" here). Overall this work reminds me a bit of Macrobius' "Saturnalia" where, again, the goings-on most often circle around weird Latin usages in Vergil, and so on. Not bad. show less
Bought a sale copy of vol. II of the Noctes Atticae having noticed that OUP are now adding Gellius to their list of print-on-demand volumes. I refuse to buy such rubbish. I'm reading the work for pleasure: I demand a book that is a pleasure to read.
Auli Gellii luculentissimi scriptoris noctes atticae : accesserunt eruditissimi uiri Petri Mosellani in easdem perdoctae adnotationes. Ad haec in loca quaedem obscuriora, ex optimis autoribus adnotationes, hoc signo praenotatae by Aulus Gellius
v LD uvedený rok 1567, ale toto vydanie som nenašla (ešte môže byť preklep 1557)
Jul 8, 2025Slovak
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