Phlegon of Tralles` Book of Marvels
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Exeter Studies in History
ISBN-10
0859894258
ISBN-13
9780859894258
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Imprint
University of Exeter Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 1997
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
308 grams
Dimensions
21.20 x 15.10 x 1.90 cms
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The Book of Marvels, a compilation of marvellous events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature, was composed in the second century A.D.
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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