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

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£24.99 |
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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. |
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index |
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UK |
Imprint: |
University of Exeter Press |
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