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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