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Docere ac delectare : Proměny římské naukové literatury.
| Title in English | Docere ac delectare : Metamorphoses of the Roman Educational Literature |
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | Gellius' Noctes Atticae and Macrobius' Saturnalia are part of writings oscillating between the educational genre and belletry. Both of their authors were not content with the existing scholastic literature and therefore decided to fulfill their own conception through own writings. Influenced by various contemporary trends (determined by the different period of their origin) and perhaps also various readers' expectations, the authors used different formal frames, Gellius so called miscellanea, Macrobius the imitation of Plato's Symposion: i.e. symposial dialogue. Because of their affiliation to different traditional genres, both writings were understood as uncomparable. However, the author of the book prooves with help of modern genre typology that both works can be succesfully compared and at the same time, the basic characteristics of ancient educational literature can be shown. The book is written in Czech, but contains also the extended English abstract. |
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