Gellius attic nights translation image balcony and attic. The work is a collection of end, and all of book 8 bar the chapter headings. 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 gellius s children. He was educated in athens, after which he returned to rome. The story is told by the first time in a written text of aulus gellius he lived in the second century ad, in his noctes atticae, v, 14. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them. Chapter headings of book i book ii book iii book iv book v chapter headings of book vi book vii book viii book ix book x book xi book xii book xiii chapter headings of book xiv book xv book xvi book xvii book xviii book xix book xx preface book i book ii book iii book iv book v the attic nights of aulus gellius.
Aulus gellius, a welleducated nobleman, is best known today for a collection of observations titled noctes atticae, a project he began during the long winter nights he spent in attica, the region of greece where athens is located. The work is a collection of mainly short chapters dealing with a great variety of topics including philosophy. On this basis gellius birth has been dated to between 125 and 128. Marble head of young vestal rome, early 2nd century ce the vestals were an anomaly in the ancient world and a paradox as roman women. I read a book of marcus ciceros entitled the orator.
Click on the underlined words for translation aids and commentary, which will appear in a small window. Written in athens to beguile the winter evenings, the work is an interesting source on the state of knowledge and scholarship of his time. Listed in the jefferson inventory of wythes library as auli gellii noctes atticae. 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. For whenever i had taken in hand any greek or latin book, or had heard anything worth remembering, i used to jot down whatever took my fancy, of any and every kind, without any definite plan or order. This is the case with almost all the remains of ancient philology, criticism, and lexicography, and with a great part. The thousands of passages contained in his work make gellius a valuable source for much early latin literature that is not extant. In aulus gellius author remembered for his miscellany noctes atticae attic nights, in which many fragments of lost works are preserved. Smiths dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythology, vol 2, 1867, p.
Aulus gellius, attic nights, book xv tufts university. This paper argues that aulus gellius, in his noctes atticae, engages in a significant translation of plutarchs concept of the appetite of not simply translating the word as apuleius does, resulting in curiositas, but isolating the corollary concept, the stimulus that acts upon the appetite, and giving it a latin name instead inlecebra, seduction. Comparatively little is known about aulus gellius, the author of the noctes atticae, and our sources of information are almost entirely his own writings. Datasets available include lcsh, bibframe, lc name authorities, lc classification, marc codes, premis vocabularies, iso language codes, and more. Peregrinus featured in an item in the missing book 8 of the noctes atticae. The selections chosen for this reader touch on diverse aspects of roman culture and can be easily understood and. The work is chiefly valuable as a storehouse of quotations from lost works. Avli gellii lvcvlentissimi scriptoris noctes atticae by aulus gellius 1 edition first published in 1573. An antonine scholar and his achievement oxford, 2003, 3436. The noctes atticae is valuable for the insight it affords into the nature of the society and pursuits of those times, and for the. It is perhaps not generally realised that a large proportion of the surviving greek and latin literature consists of extracts and epitomes. The noctes atticae of aulus gellius this grammatical work from the 2nd century ad is prized less today for gellius skill as an author, than for his quotations from. Djelo je znacajno sto donosi niz citata, odnosno fragmenata i kratkih prikaza ranijih antickih autora cija su djela inace bila izgubljena. Aulus gellius was a scholar of the 2nd century ce who lived in rome apart from a visit to greece, the author of a miscellany in twenty books and some four hundred chapters that he called noctes atticae, in english attic nights, in memory of beginning work on it during winters nights in athens.
A wikipedia article about this author is available gellius, aulus. Gellius describes the purpose of his research in the works preface. He was educated in athens, after which he returned to rome, where he held a judicial office. Ennius imagined the emotions of agamemnons soldiers at aulus, that while in the field and not at war and not allowed to go home, as more or less living.
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. Gellii noctes redditae nuper omni discussa caligine micantissimae. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the. Auli gellii noctes atticae by aulus gellius, jacobus. 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.
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. Aulus gellius, flourished 2nd century ad, latin author remembered for his miscellany noctes atticae attic nights, in which many fragments of lost works are preserved. Gellii noctivm atticarvm libri xx, stories from aulus gellius, aulus gellius, auli gellij luculentissimi scriptoris noctes atticae, a. 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.
Aulus gellius, while discussing the word praeterpropter more or less quotes a fragment of enniuss iphigenia, which contrasts otium with negotium repeatedly. Other personalities provide pertinent chronological allusions and delusions. Aulus gellius, attic nights, chapter headings of book i, i. 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 twentybook compendium of miscellaneous learning that he entitled attic nights noctes atticae. Of those, all but the beginning, end, and chapter headings survive. Plutarchs curiosity in the attic nights of aulus gellius.
Aulus gellius puts the history into the mouth of apion, who says he personally saw the incident. Aulus gellius, latin author remembered for his miscellany noctes atticae attic nights, in which many fragments of lost works are preserved. Gellius article about gellius by the free dictionary. The work collects in twenty books of book viii only the index is extant interesting notes covering philosophy, history, biography, all sorts of antiquities, points of law, literary criticism, and lexicographic matters. Aulus gellius article about aulus gellius by the free. Being selections and adaptations from the noctes atticae by. He is famous for his attic nights, a commonplace book, or compilation of notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism and other subjects, preserving fragments. Noctes atticae, the, attic nights of aulus gellius, volume iii, book xivbook xx. Entry for aulus gellius 1911 encyclopedia britannica one of 8 bible encyclopedias freely available, this resource contained over 40 million words in nearly 40,000 articles written by 1,500 respected authors. Phaedrus, of course, not included these among the fables of aesop in his latin translation.
Aulus gellius, who lived in rome in the midsecond century a. The attic nights of aulus gellius 3 volumes with latin and english translation. In that book when cicero had said that the verbs aifugio and aufero were indeed formed of the preposition ab and the verbs fugio and fero, but that the preposition, in order that the word might be smoother in pronunciation and sound, was changed and altered into the syllable au, 6 and aufulgio and aufero began to be used for abfugio and. The passage below from aulus gellius s encyclopedia noctes atticae provides insight into mid2nd century ce upperclass male expectations of womens responsibilities in birthing and nursing their offspring and into the social circumstances surrounding this event so critical for family and state note the perhaps idealized relief of a welltodo. The subjects covered include history, law, geography, philosophy, but above all. The linked data service provides access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the library of congress. Aulus gellius s most popular book is aulus gellius. Gellius, attic nights, volume i loeb classical library. The attic nights excerpts from the praefatio how pythagoras calculated the height of hercules bk.
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