Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, Preface and Books 1 10 Auli Gelli - Noctes Atticae: Praefatio Et Libri I

This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae is intended to replace the 1968 Oxford Classical Text by Peter K. Marshall. Based on a thorough reconsideration of the manuscripts, the indirect tradition, and the text, it proposes numerous emendations and in several places corrects the attribution of previous scholars' conjectures.

List of contents

• Frontmatter


• Testimonia Antiqua


• Praemonenda


• Notae


• Conspectus Editorum Auli Gelli


• Signa Codicum


• Praefatio


• Liber I


• Liber II


• Liber III


• Liber IV


• Liber V


• Liber VI


• Liber VII


• Liber VIII


• Liber IX


• Liber X

About the author

After education at Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1967, MA 1970, D.Phil. 1971), Leofranc Holford-Strevens worked as a learned reader at Oxford University Press from 1971 to 1984, and thereafter as a copy-editor until his retirement in 2011 (from 2005 with the title Consultant Scholar-Editor).

Summary

This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae is intended to replace the 1968 Oxford Classical Text by Peter K. Marshall. Based on a thorough reconsideration of the manuscripts, the indirect tradition, and the text, it proposes numerous emendations and in several places corrects the attribution of previous scholars' conjectures.

Product details

• Authors: Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Leofranc (Independent Scholar Holford-Strevens, Holford-Strevens Leofranc
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2019
• EAN: 9780199695010
• ISBN: 978-0-19-969501-0
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: Oxford Classical Texts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Ancient, classical and medieval texts