AULUS GELLIUS
by Holford-Strevens, Leofranc
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0807818186
- ISBN 13
- 9780807818183
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
University of North Carolina Press. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0807818186 . Very light bump to base of spine else fine. DJ has 1 tear along rear upper edge (crudely repaired with cellotape). Dustjacket has creasing along edges and 1 chip. ; 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 .
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11707
- Title
- AULUS GELLIUS
- Author
- Holford-Strevens, Leofranc
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0807818186
- ISBN 13
- 9780807818183
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- 0807818186, Latin Poetry, Rome, Roman History, Classical Studies, Classics
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