Gellius the satirist: Roman cultural authority in "Attic nights"
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1. Verfasser: Keulen, Wytse Hette 1968- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Brill 2009
Schriftenreihe:Mnemosyne Supplements ; Volume 297 : Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-332) and indexes
Preface; Introduction; Part One. Constructing Authority: Gellius' Roman Cultural Programme; Chapter One. Gellius the Roman Educationalist; Chapter Two. Memory and Authority; Chapter Three. Saturnalian Licence and Socratic Irony; Part Two. Playing with Reputations: 'Rehabilitation' as Political Satire; Chapter Four. Favorinus as a 'Comic Authority Figure'; Chapter Five. Exposing his Own Infamy: Avarice and Unmanliness; Chapter Six. Demonstration and Refutation: 'Investigational Rhetoric'; Chapter Seven. Favorinus' Controversial Authority
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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ISBN:9789047443421
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