Phlegon of Tralles'' Book of Marvels

A compilation of events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature. It is arranged thematically: Ghosts; Sex-Changers and Hermaphrodites; Finds of Giant Bones; Monstrous Births; Births from Males; Amazing Multiple Births; Abnormally Rapid Development of Human Beings; and Discoveries of Live Centaurs. Zusammenfassung The Book of Marvels! a compilation of marvellous events of a grotesque! bizarre or sensational nature! was composed in the second century A.D. "Book of Marvels" Long-lived persons Olympiads. Appendices: Proklos - instances of persons who have died and returned to life Goethe -"The Bride of Corinth", translated by Breon Mitchell Philostratos - Achilleus' ghost and the Trojan maiden

Product details

• Authors: William Hansen, Phlegon, Of Tralles Phlegon
• Assisted by: William Hansen (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Exeter Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1997
• EAN: 9780859894258
• ISBN: 978-0-85989-425-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Exeter studies in history; Exeter studies in history
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity