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Phlegon of Tralles' Book of Marvels
Contributor(s): Hansen, William (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0859894258     ISBN-13: 9780859894258
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
OUR PRICE: $52.49  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: January 1997
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- History | Ancient - General
- Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical
Dewey: 888
Series: Exeter Studies in History
Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.60 lbs) 232 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
Features: Bibliography
 
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Publisher Description:
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.
 
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