Aulus Gellius Attic Nights Date

123 170 ce offers in attic nights gellius began to write these pieces during stays in athens a collection of short chapters about notable events words and questions of literary style lives of historical figures legal points and philosophical issues that served as instructive light reading for cultivated romans.

Aulus gellius attic nights date.

The selections chosen for this reader touch on diverse aspects of roman culture and can be easily understood and. Click the link for more information. There is difference of opinion as to the date and the place of his birth and of his death as to the time and duration of his residence in athens and as to the time of his appointment as. Introduction the life and works of aulus gellius.

2d cent roman writer. Book vi book vii book viii book ix book x book xi book xii book xiii book xiv book xv book xvi. 125 after 180 ad was a roman author and grammarian who was probably born and certainly brought up in rome he was educated in athens after which he returned to rome he is famous for his attic nights a commonplace book or compilation of notes on grammar philosophy history antiquarianism and other subjects preserving fragments of the works of many authors who might. 21 leuze suggests that gellius so arranged his material as to show that at a time when the greeks were lighting epochmaking battles the romans were warring with comparatively insignificant italian peoples.

Collection americana digitizing sponsor google book from the collections of. Comparatively little is known about aulus gellius the author of the noctes atticae and our sources of information are almost entirely his own writings. Gellius is here using a varroian source. Nepos date would be 483.

He took a particular interest in questions of grammar and. His attic nights so named because they began as the intellectual pastime of winter evenings spent in a villa outside athens are a mine of information on many aspects of antiquity and a repository of much early latin literature which would otherwise be lost. Aulus gellius originated the modern use of classical and humanities. The attic nights of aulus gellius.

Publication date 1795 topics aulus fame attic thefe fome thofe faid alfo nights fays attic nights marcus cato greeks call fame time twelve tables marcus cicero fecond book public domain marcus varro greek word publisher printed for j. See gellius aulus gellius aulus fl. See note on xvii. Full text of the attic nights of aulus gellius see other formats.

He was a lawyer who spent at least a year in athens and wrote noctes atticae attic nights a collection of discussions of law antiquities and sundry other subjects in 20 books of which 19 and a fraction survive.