Phlegon of Tralles' Book of Marvels Paperback / softback
Edited by William Hansen
Part of the Exeter Studies in History series
Paperback / softback
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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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/01/1997
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- ISBN:9780859894258
Information
-
Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/01/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780859894258
