Opuscula de rebus mirabilibus et de longaevis

Phlegon <Trallianus>

Published by De Gruyter 2011

Opuscula de rebus mirabilibus et de longaevis

Phlegon <Trallianus>
Edited by: Antonio Stramaglia

In the series Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110239058

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About this book

Phlegon of Tralles, a learned freedman of Hadrian’s, was a prolific writer, but only two of his works have – though not entirely – survived: Peri thaumasion (‘On marvellous things’) and Peri makrobion (‘On long-lived persons’). The former is probably the main extant paradoxographic collection from classical antiquity, mostly famous for some memorable ghost stories (one of which inspired Goethe); the latter reviews long-lived individuals from both archival and literary sources. Both are extensively interespersed with oracles, Sibylline and others. These works were hitherto available in unsatisfactory editions. Stramaglia’s new edition relies on a fresh, meticulous collation of the codex unicus (Heidelberg, Palat. Gr. 398); takes complete account of scholarship from the editio princeps (1568) onwards; establishes the text according to a sounder evaluation of Phlegon’s language and style; and includes not only a detailed apparatus criticus, but also – for the first time – an apparatus auxiliarius providing loci similes vel paralleli, as well as close bibliographical references and elucidations of obscure or abstruse passages.

Author / Editor information

Antonio Stramaglia, Università di Cassino, Italien.

Reviews

"In sum, all readers will be grateful to Antonio Stramaglia for his informative preface, his improvements to Phlegon's text, and his unusually helpful apparatuses."
William Hansen in: Exemplaria Classica 15 (2011)

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
De rebus mirabilibus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
De longaevis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Indices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93

(Deutsch)

Language: Ancient Greek
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 60
- Main content: 96
Keywords: Phlegon; Hadrian; Paradoxography

eBook

Published: December 23, 2010
ISBN: 9783110239058

Hardcover

Published: December 14, 2010
ISBN: 9783110245974