Aulus Gellius’s Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights) is a second-century AD miscellany of anecdotes, philosophical debates, grammatical curiosities, and historical snippets gathered during Gellius’s studies in Athens and Rome. This volume presents selections adapted for modern readers, capturing Gellius’s charm as an antiquarian compiler who preserved fragments of lost authors and illuminated the intellectual life of the high Roman Empire. Note: some material is presented in Latin alongside English adaptations.
This free EPUB is formatted for e-readers. Gellius is one of the most enjoyable writers from antiquity — a brilliant dinner-party conversationalist whose Noctes Atticae preserves more quotations from lost Greek and Latin authors than almost any other source.