{"product_id":"opuscula-de-rebus-mirabilibus-et-de-longaevis-9783110245974","title":"Opuscula de rebus mirabilibus et de longaevis","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Phlegon | Antonio Stramaglia\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhlegon of Tralles, a learned freedman of Hadrian's, was a prolific writer, but only two of his works have - though not entirely - survived: \u003ci\u003ePeri thaumasion \u003c\/i\u003e('On marvellous things') and \u003ci\u003ePeri makrobion \u003c\/i\u003e('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\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003elong-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 \u003ci\u003ecodex unicus\u003c\/i\u003e (Heidelberg, Palat. Gr. 398); takes complete account of scholarship from the \u003ci\u003eeditio princeps \u003c\/i\u003e(1568) onwards; establishes the text according to a sounder evaluation of Phlegon's language and style; and includes not only a detailed \u003ci\u003eapparatus criticus\u003c\/i\u003e, but also - for the first time - an \u003ci\u003eapparatus auxiliarius\u003c\/i\u003e providing \u003ci\u003eloci similes vel paralleli\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as close bibliographical references and elucidations of obscure or abstruse passages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"de Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47813487493271,"sku":"9783110245974","price":6941.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783110245974.webp?v=1778336330","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/opuscula-de-rebus-mirabilibus-et-de-longaevis-9783110245974","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}