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Title: PHLEGON OF TRALLES' BOOK OF MARVELS
By: William Hansen (Editor)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0859894258
ISBN 13: 9780859894258
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Publisher: LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 January, 1997
Series: Exeter Studies in History S.
Pages: 232
Translated from: Greek, Modern (1453-)
Description: A compilation of events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature. It 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; and Discoveries of Live Centaurs.
Synopsis: 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; and 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.
Illustrations: index
Publication: UK
Imprint: University of Exeter Press
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