This is the first collection of essays in any language on Aulus Gellius; its contributors, both established and younger scholars, include Gellian experts lookin

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Long a source for quotations, fragments, and factoids, the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius offers hundreds of brief but vivid glimpses of Roman intellectual lif

Aulus Gellius originated the modern use of 'classical' and 'humanities'. His Attic Nights, so named because they began as the intellectual pastime of winter eve