{"product_id":"gelliana-a-textual-companion-to-the-noctes-atticae-of-aulus-gellius-9780199693931","title":"Gelliana: A Textual Companion to the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius","description":"Written by Leofranc Holford-Strevens to accompany his Oxford Classical Texts edition of Aulus Gellius' \u003cem\u003eNoctes Atticae\u003c\/em\u003e, this volume presents more expansive discussions and explanations of choices of readings at various places in the text than would be possible within the narrow confines of the\u003cbr\u003eedition's apparatus criticus (in which all passages discussed in \u003cem\u003eGelliana\u003c\/em\u003e are marked with an asterisk). The grounds adduced are generally grammatical in the modern sense of the word, concerning accidence, vocabulary, or syntax, but sometimes invoke palaeography, logic, or other matters of content.\u003cbr\u003ePrevious scholars, and also translations, are frequently cited in order either to credit the person first on record as having understood the text correctly or to indicate the source of a current misinterpretation. The preliminary matter includes an extensive list, significantly expanded from that\u003cbr\u003edrawn up by Martin Hertz, of places where scribes have inadvertently corrupted the text through inappropriate importation of the Christian terms with which they were familiar, while a separate appendix contains corrections to and revisions of passages in the author's previously published monograph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAulus Gellius: An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2003, corrected paperback 2005) and article '\u003cem\u003eRecht as een Palmen-Bohm\u003c\/em\u003e and other Facets of Gellius' Medieval and Humanistic Reception' in \u003cem\u003eThe Worlds of Aulus Gellius\u003c\/em\u003e (co-edited with Amiel D. Vardi, OUP 2004).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leofranc Holford-Strevens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199693931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeofranc Holford-Strevens, \u003cem\u003eIndependent scholar, based in the UK\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter education at Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1967, MA 1970, D.Phil. 1971), Leofranc Holford-Strevens worked as a learned reader at Oxford University Press from 1971 to 1984, and thereafter as a copy-editor until his retirement in 2011 (from 2005 with the title Consultant Scholar-Editor).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40008394506355,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":69.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_105eb342-520a-4192-9ecc-c9c8feff2eff.jpg?v=1650385209","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/gelliana-a-textual-companion-to-the-noctes-atticae-of-aulus-gellius-9780199693931","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}