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Gellius the satirist : Roman cultural authority in Attic nights /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Colección: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
297. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; 297. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 an apolitical bookworm. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 362 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-332) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789047443421 904744342X 1282399691 9781282399693 9786612399695 6612399694 |
| ISSN: | 0169-8958 ; |