Gellius the satirist : : Roman cultural authority in Attic nights / / by Wytse Keulen.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne. Supplements, v. 297
• Author: Keulen, Wytse Hette.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 297.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This monograph presents an original portrait of the second-century miscellanist Aulus Gellius, based on a detailed reading of Attic Nights against its contemporary background. Highlighting Gellius’ use of humour and irony in his portrayals of controversial celebrities such as Favorinus and Herodes A...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / W.H. Keulen
• Introduction / W.H. Keulen
• Chapter One. Gellius the roman educationalist / W.H. Keulen
• Chapter Two. Memory and authority / W.H. Keulen
• Chapter Three. Saturnalian licence and socratic irony / W.H. Keulen
• Chapter Four. Favorinus as a ‘comic authority figure’ / W.H. Keulen
• Chapter Five. Exposing his own infamy: Avarice and unmanliness / W.H. Keulen
• Chapter Six. Demonstration and refutation: ‘Investigational rhetoric’ / W.H. Keulen
• Chapter Seven. Favorinus’ controversial authority / W.H. Keulen
• Chapter Eight. The imperial context of Gellius’ authority / W.H. Keulen
• Chapter Nine. Gellius’ symbouleutic authority / W.H. Keulen
• Chapter Ten. Comparative judgments in roman sites of memory / W.H. Keulen
• Chapter Eleven. Comparative judgments in greek sites of memory / W.H. Keulen
• Conclusion: Constructing cultural and political continuity / W.H. Keulen
• Bibliography / W.H. Keulen
• Index locorum / W.H. Keulen
• Index nominum et rerum / W.H. Keulen
• Index verborum latinorum et graecorum / W.H. Keulen
• Supplements to Mnemosyne / W.H. Keulen.