List of sources and translations this list contains links to all the sources which are mentioned in the attalus website. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position. No doubt gellius is read in the main by those who do not need them 1 in the middle of the second century ad, aulus gellius wrote a twenty book compendium of miscellaneous learning that he entitled attic nights noctes atticae. It also includes all greek and latin authors who are available in online translations excluding short fragments, from the earliest times up to. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages. All data below are available with an open data commons open database license. Written in athens to beguile the winter evenings, the work is an interesting source on the state of knowledge and scholarship of his time. There are certain standard abbreviations used in connection with the authors and their works in classics. Supposing him to have resided at athens from the age of nineteen. Noctes atticae, book 9, chapter 15, verse 4 introit adulescens et praefatur arrogantius et elatius, quam aetati eius decebat, ac deinde iubet exponi controversias. It also includes all greek and latin authors who are available in online translations excluding short fragments, from the earliest times up to 200 a. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Peregrinus featured in an item in the missing book 8 of the noctes atticae.
John 3 commentary matthew henry commentary on the whole. Although the story of gellius, noctes atticae, v, 14 is a bit long, i transcribe it integer and so the reader has direct knowledge of. Aulus gellius, attic nights, capitula libri primi 1, i 1. He is famous for his attic nights, a commonplace book, or compilation of notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism. Aulus gellius, who lived in rome in the midsecond century a. Written in athens to beguile the winter evenings, the work is an interesting source. It is a valuable source for many otherwise lost books, since gellius quoted. Aulus gellius, atticae noctes ix v 4 marshall 1968 p. The attic nights, complete latin text and english translation. Vive moribus praeteritis, loquere verbis praesentibus. The article presents information about aulus gellius, a latin grammarian and the translation of his work.
Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Aulus gellius composed his miscellany, the noctes atticae attic nights, in the midsecond century a d as a means of educating, entertaining and intellectually stimulating his fellow romans. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Site contains many greek and latin texts, translations and related material. Intellectual narratives and elite roman learning in the. Aulus gellius, latin author remembered for his miscellany noctes atticae attic nights, in which many fragments of lost works are preserved. By examining the deployment of linked varronian citations throughout gellius third book, this article argues for both the centrality of such quotations in recognizing a unified intellectual plan of the noctes atticae, and the corresponding importance of varro for gellius literary persona.
Brief accounts were given in schmidt 1997 and holfordstrevens 1999. His most mature book was the collection of essays and novellas entitled russian nights 1844. I myself read the story in my childhood probably in some uplifting stories books. Latin essays, latin prose literature, civilization, grecoroman, translations into italian, sources, civilization, translations into english, roman law. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. 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.
The work is a collection of short chapters on topics ranging from philosophy, history, and law to grammar and literary criticism, and was written with the purpose of entertaining and instructing gelliuss children. Gellii noctium atticarum libri 20, oeuvres completes daulugelle, a. 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. He is famous for his attic nights, a commonplace book, or compilation of. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Loosely patterned after the noctes atticae, the book took two decades to complete. Gell, aulus gellius, noctes atticae, online translation books 1, online translation books 1420. Pdf a literary interchange gellius, noctes atticae iii, 15. Gellius, attic nights, volume i loeb classical library. The work is a collection of end, and all of book 8 bar the chapter headings. Another edition of the whole text with notes and translation p behind the iron. Marshalls oct edition 1968 of the noctes atticaelepidi novi libelli th so spruce nowlanded on my.
Gellius describes the purpose of his research in the works preface. Through sulpicius apollinaris, gellius had some knowledge of the prestigious erucius clarus, now known from the fasti ostienses to have died in march, 146. He was educated in athens, after which he returned to rome, where he held a judicial office. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Aulus gellius has been described as a compiler, and chapter 3. A list of ancient greek and latin authors, with links to online translations. His work was part of a strong miscellany tradition in the hellenistic and roman worlds. Noctes atticae article about noctes atticae by the free. In ciceros second book on glory there is an evident mistake, of no great importancea mistake p. You are free to copy, distribute and use the database. It takes as its main subject the various ways in which gellius narrates and otherwise represents mental and. Other personalities provide pertinent chronological allusions and delusions.
The noctes atticae were exploited by pagans and christians alike in late antiquity. Classical abbreviations for authors and their works. 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. Full text of the noctes atticae of aulus gellius see other formats stop early journal content on jstor, free to anyone in the world this article is one of nearly 500,000 scholarly works digitized and made freely available to everyone in the world by jstor. The work is a collection of mainly short chapters dealing with a great variety of topics including philosophy. Gellii noctivm atticarvm libri xx, stories from aulus gellius, aulus gellius, auli gellij luculentissimi scriptoris noctes atticae, a. This thesis offers a new interpretation of the literary techniques of the noctes atticae, a secondcentury latin miscellaneous work by aulus gellius, with new readings of various passages. Gellius is frequently dismissed as a dilettante who collected his material without discrimination or forethought. Gellius interest in language is expressed through his inquiries into discrete. It derives its name from the fact of its having been written during the long nights of a winter which the author spent in attica as a young itinerant student. These were noctes christianaechristian nights, much more instructive than the noctes atticaeattic nights.
Hide browse bar your current position in the text is marked in blue. Comparatively little is known about aulus gellius, the author of the noctes atticae, and our sources of information are almost entirely his own writings. It contains some of odoyevskys best known fiction, including the dystopian novellas the last suicide and the town with no. Gellius calls himself iuvenis while at athens 15, 2, 3, and elsewhere. Gellius here and now what gaston boissier did for cicero in a delightful book. Therefore i am not so much surprised that marcus tullius erred in that matter, as that it was not noticed later and corrected either. Being selections and adaptations from the noctes atticae, edited with notes, exercises and vocabularies for the use of lower forms main text in latin, notes in english. The kudoz network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases. The young fellow entered the room, made some preliminary remarks in a more arrogant and presumptuous style than became his years, and then asked that subjects for debate be. The first modern study of gellius outside reference books was nettleship 1883.
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. He was educated in athens, after which he returned to rome. Speusippus and the entire old academy say that pleasure and pain are two evils opposed to each other, but that the good is what is in the middle between the two. While i generally spell out the names and works of ancient authors, it.
Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page. Later, when he had grown up, he worked hard to gain a livelihood, resorting to the humble calling of a buyer of mules and carriages, which he had contracted with the state to furnish to the magistrates who had been allotted provinces. Aulus gellius collected together many curious pieces, which he extracted from the books he had read. Of those, all but the beginning, end, and chapter headings survive.
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