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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.