Reading miscellany in the Roman empire: Aulus Gellius and the imperial prose collection
Most classists have viewed Aulus Gellius' second-century text, the Noctes Atticae, as little more than a haphazard collection of short essays and excerpts by an amateur scholar. Often called a "miscellany," the Noctes Atticae collects vast amounts of otherwise lost ancient literature...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Most classists have viewed Aulus Gellius' second-century text, the Noctes Atticae, as little more than a haphazard collection of short essays and excerpts by an amateur scholar. Often called a "miscellany," the Noctes Atticae collects vast amounts of otherwise lost ancient literature and records Gellius' experience of reading them. While the depictions of his scholarly activity have led some scholars to see in Gellius a kindred spirit...a Classicist avant la lettre...his work is often relegated to the second tier of Latin literature, considered either an unoriginal assembly of more sophisticated sources or too heterogeneous for Classicists to approach as a whole. Reading Miscellany in the Roman Empire, on the other hand, interprets the Noctes Atticae as a fundamentally literary collection that offers a profound meditation on the experience of reading and literary culture at the height of the Roman Empire. Incorporating textual analysis alongside narratology-informed approaches, Scott J. DiGiulio investigates the strategies used by Gellius to innovate within the Latin literary tradition and provides a framework for interpreting this text's perceived disorder on its own terms. The Noctes Atticae's self-conscious, miscellaneous aesthetic can enable us to probe the nature of reading during this moment in time, as Gellius' central preoccupation is articulating distinct "ways of reading," which DiGiulio argues we may use to navigate the web of literature in the Roman Empire. Gellius' use of material framing devices, focal characters, recurrent citations in dialogue with one another, and allusive references to other near-contemporary works can all be used as evidence that the evolution of prose as a literary form took place in the second century |
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Contents xi Preface Introduction: Ways of Reading and the Miscellanistic Project i ? n 18 Defining Miscellany The Challenge of Miscellany and Narratives of Randomness Ways of Reading in the NA : An Overview 1. Reading the NA through the Latin Literary Past: Gellius and the Imperial Prose Tradition Introduction: Latin Literature and the Critical Tradition in Z3 the ΝΑ The Negative Critical Model of the Elder Pliny: Reading the Z3 HN in the NA Gellius between Plinian Poles: otium, negotium, and the Gellian Persona Quintilian-Pliny-Gellius; or, Gellian Intertextuality at Play Z7 36 45 Gellius’ Dialogue de Seneca—A Case Study of Imperial Literary Criticism Conclusion 2. Approaching a Miscellanistic Work from the Outside In: Paratextual Strategies Introduction: Framing the Gellian Paratext Reading from the Outside In; or, The Title as Chronotope Reading from the Top Down: The Table of Contents Reading Lemmata with Their Chapters Conclusion 5z 67 71 71 77 88 99 108
Contents viii 3. Prescribing a Way of Reading: Gellius’ Preface as Critical Model Introduction: Between Paratext and Text Crossing the Threshold: The Preface no no Alternative Latin Models: Pliny the Elder 113 126 A Model of Critical Reading: Plutarchs De Audiendis Poetis and De Recta Ratione Audiendi Conclusion: Gellius’ Ludus Musicus 4. Confronting Variety in the NA·. A Guide for the Perplexed 133 144 146 Introduction: Varietas, Miscellanistic Aesthetics, and the NA 146 The Architecture of the NA: Forging Connections 150 Effects ofDisparilitas: Variety and Paired Chapters 156 Character-Oriented Reading: Fronto and Gellius’ (Negjotium Citation-Oriented Reading: NA 2.20-2.30 and Gellius’ 164 Comparative Approach 174 How to Read the Greek and Latin Languages: 2.20-3, ι·2·6 Greco-Roman Values and Gellian Reading: 2.24-5, 27 175 Tying It All Together: 2.28-30 Conclusion i8i 184 187 5. The Poetics of Prose: Gellius, Alexandrianism, and the Composed Book Introduction Gellius, Catullus, and the Tradition of Lyric Gellius’ Horace From Poetics to Prosaics: Pliny, Gellius, and the Alexandrian Aesthetic Conclusion 190 190 193 198 202 218 6. How to Read a Book: NA Book 3 221 Introduction S etting the Stage : NA 3.1 221 223 Varros Voice: Authority and Antiquarianism Shifting Definitions of Virtus and Roman Identity A Question of Character: Favorinus and Roman Masculinity Conclusion: Harmonizing Competing Ways of Reading in 226 248 259 the Gellian Book 264
Contents ix 7. Approaches to Reading Miscellanistic Aesthetics from Late Antiquity to Today Introduction Gellius’ Jeweled Style ? The NA in Late Antiquity The Gellian Renaissance and the Birth of the Essay: From Poliziano’s Miscellanea to Montaigne’s Essais 267 267 270 277 Miscellanism in England: Burtons Anatomy ofMelancholy and D’Israeli’s Miscellanies 285 Borges’ Gellius: Thoroughly Modern Miscellany? 289 References 295 IndexLocorum 315 Index 321 |
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