Phlegon of Tralles' Book of marvels

著者

• Phlegon, of Tralles
• Hansen, William F.

書誌事項

Phlegon of Tralles' Book of marvels

translated with an introduction and commentary by William Hansen

（Exeter studies in history）

University of Exeter Press, 1996

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

"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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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB01351952
• ISBN:
  • 0859894258
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 原本言語コード: grc
• 出版地: Exeter
• ページ数/冊数: xvi, 215 p.
• 大きさ: 21 cm
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 888.0108
• 件名:
  • BLSH : Phlegon, of Tralles, Book of marvels
  • LCSH : Curiosities and wonders -- Early works to 1900
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA05014436