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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 Atticus, the book provides a necessary corrective to interpretations of Gellius as an uncritical philhellene or an apolitical bookworm. Distinguishing Gellius’ various literary personae (the youthful sectator, the independent researcher, the mature writer and adviser), the book uncovers the many-layered sophistication of Gellius’ self-presentation. Noting previously unrecognised allusions to literary works and contemporary events, it offers a fresh perspective on Gellius as a satirical writer, whose Roman cultural programme reflects the ambiguities and complexities of Antonine intellectual life.

Satire, Latin --- Satire latine --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Gellius, Aulus. --- Rome --- Rome dans la littérature --- In literature. --- Gellius, Aulus --- Criticism and interpretation --- In literature --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rome dans la littérature --- Aulu-Gelle --- Gelio, Aulo --- Gelius, Aulius --- Gelli, Auli --- Avl Gelliĭ --- Gelliĭ, Avl --- Gellius, A. --- Gelle, Aulu --- Gellio, Aulo --- Gelyus, Olus --- Gelyus, Ulus --- גליוס, אולוס --- Gelius, Aulus --- Gellius, Aulus. - Noctes Atticae --- Gellius, Aulus - Criticism and interpretation --- Rome - In literature

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Aulus Gellius' accounts of his studies in Athens are a major source for the personality of Taurus the Platonic philosopher of the 2nd century A.D. and besides, give important insights into the history of Platonic school of that time. The present work puts together Gellius' reports on the Middle Platonist for the first time and — by its detailed commentary — offers a new understanding of contents, form and methods of his philosophical instructions, of the relationship between teacher and students, and of student life in the 2nd century A.D. in general. By this means numerous topics in ancient philosophy, philology, science, and pedagogics are dealt with. Finally the results thus gained are combined with all remaining literary and epigraphic evidence, so that a lively portrait of Taurus as a philosophical teacher emerges. A collection of testimonies and fragments concerning Taurus' life and work, a comprehensive bibliography, and indices complete the work.

Platonists --- Platoniciens --- Tauros, --- Gellius, Aulus. --- -Platonism --- Philosophers --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Tauros --- Gellius, Aulus --- Avl Gelliĭ --- Gelliĭ, Avl --- Gellius, A. --- Aulu-Gelle --- Gelle, Aulu --- Gellio, Aulo --- Gelyus, Olus --- Gelyus, Ulus --- Gelio, Aulo --- גליוס, אולוס --- Gelius, Aulus --- -Tauros --- Gelius, Aulius --- Platonism --- Taurus, --- Taurus Berytius, --- Taurus, Lucius Calvenus, --- Taurus, Calvisius, --- Greece --- Platonists. --- Noctes Atticae (Gellius, Aulus) --- A. Gellii Noctium Atticarum libri XX (Gellius, Aulus) --- Noctium Atticarum libri XX (Gellius, Aulus) --- Auli Gellii, luculentissimi scriptoris, Noctes Atticae (Gellius, Aulus) --- Auli Gellii Noctes Atticae (Gellius, Aulus) --- Greece. --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Platonists - Greece.