Phlegon of Tralles' Book of marvels
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Phlegon of Tralles' Book of marvels
(Exeter studies in history)
University of Exeter Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Book of Marvels, a compilation of marvellous events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature, was composed in the second century A.D. by Phlegon of Tralles, a Greek freedman of the Roman emperor Hadrian. This remarkable text is the earliest surviving work of pure sensationalism in Western literature. The Book is arranged thematically: Ghosts; Sex-Changers and Hermaphrodites; Finds of Giant Bones; Monstrous Births; Births from Males; Amazing Multiple Births; Abnormally Rapid Development of Human Beings; Discoveries of Live Centaurs. This volume also contains and Introduction and commentary on the texts, as well as translations of fragments of two other works and a translation of Goethe's well-known vampire poem, The Bride of Corinth, which was inspired by Phlegon's Book of Marvels.
Table of Contents
"Book of Marvels"
Long-lived persons
Olympiads.
Appendices: Proklos - instances of persons who have died and returned to life
Goethe -"The Bride of Corinth", translated by Breon Mitchell
Philostratos - Achilleus' ghost and the Trojan maiden
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