AULUS GELLIUS

University of North Carolina Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0807818186 . Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ has creasing along top edge. ; In this, the most comprehensive study of Gellius in any language, Dr Holford-Strevens examines his life, his circle of acquaintances, his style, his reading, his scholarly interests, and his literary parentage, paying due attention to the text, sense, and content of individual passages, and to the use made of him by later writers in antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and more recent times. It covers many subject areas such as language, literature, history, law, rhetoric, medicine; light is shed on a wide range of problems in Greek as well as Latin authors, either in the main text or in the succinct but wide-ranging footnotes. ; 284 pages .