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"Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights, so named because they began as the intellectual pastime of winter evenings spent in a villa outside Athens, are a mine of information on many aspects of antiquity and a repository of much early Latin literature which would otherwise be lost. The who…
Aulus Gellius originated the modern use of 'classical' and 'humanities'. In this volume, Leofranc Holford-Strevens examines his life, his circle of acquaintances, his style, his reading his scholarly interests and his literary parentage.