NOCTURNAL WRITERS IN IMPERIAL ROME: THE CULTURE OF LUCUBRATIO.
The article reports that in the second half of the second century C.E. the image of the night writer comes into its own: Aulus Gellius, inventing the title "Attic Nights," places his work permanently under the sign of the nights on which, as he explains in his preface, he had first begun preparing i...
| Publicado en: | Classical Philology Vol. 99; no. 3; pp. 209 - 243 |
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University of Chicago Press
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| Sumario: | The article reports that in the second half of the second century C.E. the image of the night writer comes into its own: Aulus Gellius, inventing the title "Attic Nights," places his work permanently under the sign of the nights on which, as he explains in his preface, he had first begun preparing it. But Gellius' idea was not entirely new within the prose literature of imperial Rome. In 62 C.E., Lucius Anneus Seneca writes in one of his earliest Moral Letters how he "claims possession of part of the nights for [his] studies" and describes himself struggling against sleep to keep his eyes fixed on the task of writing the letters for the therapy of those who will live after him. |
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