This is the first collection of essays in any language on Aulus Gellius. Its contributors, both established and younger scholars, include Gellian experts looking out with specialists in other fields looking in; they combine traditional and new approaches. Subjects range from the bilingual culture in which Gellius wrote, through his stylistic judgements, his skills in etymology and narrative, his relation to the antiquarian tradition, the generic expectations of miscellany, his claim to educate his readers, the theory of "Gellian humanism," and his attitude towards intellectuals, to his reception in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Scientific Revolution.

• I. Contexts and Achievements


• 1: Simon Swain: Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Antonine Rome: Apuleius, Fronto, and Gellius


• 2: Alessandro Garcea and Valeria Lomanto: Gellius and Fronto on Loanwords and Literary Models: Their Evaluation of Laberius


• 3: Franco Cavazza: Gellius the Etymologist: Gellius' Etymologies and Modern Etymology


• 4: Graham Anderson: Aulus Gellius as a Storyteller


• 5: Andrew J. Stevenson: Gellius and the Roman Antiquarian Tradition


• II. Ideologies


• 6: Amiel Vardi: Gellius `Noctes Atticae': Genre, Conventions, and Cultural Programme


• 7: Teresa Morgan: Educational Values in Gellius


• 8: Stephen M. Beall: Gellian Humanism Revisited


• 9: Wytse Keulen: Gellius, Apuleius, and Satire on the Intellectual


• III. Reception


• 10: Leofranc Holford-Strevens: `Recht as een Palmen-Bohm' and Other Facets of Gellius' Medieval and Humanistic Reception


• 11: Michael Heath: Gellius in the French Renaissance


• 12: Anthony Grafton: Conflict and Harmony in the `Collegium Gellianum'

Leofranc Holford-Strevens is Consultant Scholar-Editor, Oxford University Press
Amiel Vardi is Senior Lecturer in Classics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem