Gellius the satirist : Roman cultural authority in Attic nights / by Wytse Keulen.

Presents a portrait of the second-century miscellanist Aulus Gellius. Highlighting Gellius' use of humour and irony in his portrayals of controversial celebrities such as Favorinus and Herodes Atticus, this book provides a corrective to interpretations of Gellius as an uncritical philhellene or...

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Main Author: Keulen, Wytse Hette (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 297.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; 297.
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