This is a collection of essays on the second-century Roman miscellanist Aulus Gellius. Combining approaches, it places his achievements in context, compares the values he expresses with contemporary expectations, and illustrates his reception in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Scientific Revolution.

I. CONTEXTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS ; 1. Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Antonine Rome: Apuleius, Fronto, and Gellius ; 2. Gellius and Fronto on Loanwords and Literary Models: Their Evaluation of Laberius ; 3. Gellius the Etymologist: Gellius' Etymologies and Modern Etymology ; 4. Aulus Gellius as a Storyteller ; 5. Gellius and the Roman Antiquarian Tradition ; II. IDEOLOGIES ; 6. Gellius 'Noctes Atticae': Genre, Conventions, and Cultural Programme ; 7. Educational Values in Gellius ; 8. Gellian Humanism Revisited ; 9. Gellius, Apuleius, and Satire on the Intellectual ; III. RECEPTION ; 10. 'Recht as een Palmen-Bohm' and Other Facets of Gellius' Medieval and Humanistic Reception ; 11. Gellius in the French Renaissance ; 12. Conflict and Harmony in the 'Collegium Gellianum'

First multi-author essay-collection in any language on Aulus Gellius Combines pieces by Gellianists looking out at other fields with others by experts in other fields looking in A mixture of traditional and new approaches Contributes to literary, linguistic, medieval, Renaissance, and Scientific Revolution studies

First multi-author essay-collection in any language on Aulus Gellius Combines pieces by Gellianists looking out at other fields with others by experts in other fields looking in A mixture of traditional and new approaches Contributes to literary, linguistic, medieval, Renaissance, and Scientific Revolution studies