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The series publishes important new editions of and commentaries on texts from Greco-Roman antiquity, especially annotated editions of texts surviving only in fragments. Due to its programmatically wide range the series provides an essential basis for the study of ancient literature.

Greek geographers. --- ekphrasis. --- paradoxography. --- philosophical collection.

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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.

Curiosities and wonders --- Curiosités et merveilles --- Longévité --- Didactic poetry, Greek. --- Phlegon, --- Curiosités et merveilles --- Didactic poetry, Greek --- Longevity --- Greek didactic poetry --- Greek poetry --- Enigmas --- Facts, Miscellaneous --- Miscellaneous facts --- Oddities --- Trivia --- Wonders --- Phlegon, Publius Aelius --- Phlegōn, --- Publius Aelius Phlegon --- Trallianus, Phlegon --- Φλέγων, --- Flegonte, --- Longévité --- Early works to 1800 --- Early works to 1800. --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Curiosities and wonders - Early works to 1800 --- Hadrian. --- Paradoxography. --- Phlegon.