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Historical Miscellany

Door Aelian

Categorie	Klassieke Oudheid
Boeknummer	#422118-YF15
Titel	Historical Miscellany
Auteur	Aelian
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Cambridge, MA/London : Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1997
ISBN10	067499535X
ISBN13	9780674995352
Taal	Engels, Overig
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered green cloth, dust jacket, edited and translated by N.G. Wilson, (6),514 pages, reprinted, text in Greek and English, 8vo. Loeb Classical Library 486.
Samenvatting	A literary cabinet of curiosities. Aelian's Historical Miscellany is a pleasurable example of light reading for Romans of the early third century. Offering engaging anecdotes about historical figures, retellings of legendary events, and enjoyable descriptive pieces--in sum: amusement, information, and variety--Aelian's collection of nuggets and narratives could be enjoyed by a wide reading public. A rather similar book had been published in Latin in the previous century by Aulus Gellius; Aelian is a late, perhaps the last, representative of what had been a very popular genre. Here then are anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights; myths instructively retold; moralizing tales about heroes and rulers, athletes and wise men; reports about styles in dre... (Lees verder)ss, food and drink, lovers, gift-giving practices, entertainments, religious beliefs and death customs; and comments on Greek painting. Some of the information is not preserved in any other source. Underlying it all are Aelian's Stoic ideals as well as this Roman's great admiration for the culture of the Greeks (whose language he borrowed for his writings). The Historical Miscellany is now added to the Loeb Classical Library, the Greek text facing a skillful and helpfully annotated new translation by Nigel Wilson. In his trenchant Introduction he discusses the literary genre of Aelian's miscellany, its style and historical setting.
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