{"product_id":"opuscula-de-rebus-mirabilibus-et-de-longaevis-9783110245974","title":"Opuscula de rebus mirabilibus et de longaevis","description":"  \u003cmeta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"\u003e \u003cmeta content=\"mshtml 6.00.6000.16981\" name=\"generator\"\u003e \u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" align=\"justify\"\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003eprobably 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003es 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"DE\"\u003es 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\/span\u003e","brand":"Phlegon \u003cTrallianus\u003e","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48261780111611,"sku":"9783110245974","price":84.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_af20d239-c38e-4db6-83fd-0dc6477aa421.jpg?v=1775612904","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/opuscula-de-rebus-mirabilibus-et-de-longaevis-9783110245974","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}