Aulus Gellius (c. 125 - after 180), Latin author and grammarian, possibly of African origin, probably born and certainly brought up at Rome. Events Construction of the Pantheon (Rome) as it stands today by Hadrian. ... For other uses, see number 180. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 8th century BC Mayor Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1,285 km²  (496. ...

He studied grammar and rhetoric at Rome and philosophy at Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office. His teachers and friends included many distinguished men — Sulpicius Apollinaris, Herodes Atticus and Fronto. Grammar is the study of rules governing the use of language. ... Rhetoric (from Greek ρήτωρ, rhêtôr, orator, teacher) is the art or technique of persuasion, usually through the use of language. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Evzones Athens (Greek: Αθήνα, Athína IPA: ) is the capital and largest city of Greece. ... Sulpicius Apollinaris, a learned grammarian of Carthage, who flourished in the 2nd century AD. He taught Pertinax, himself a teacher of grammar before he was emperor, and Aulus Gellius, who speaks of him in the highest terms. ... Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes, commonly known as Herodes Atticus (c. ... Marcus Cornelius Fronto (c. ...

His only work, the Noctes Atticae, takes its name from having been begun during the long nights of a winter which he spent in Attica. He afterwards continued it at Rome. It is compiled out of an Adversaria, or commonplace book, in which he had jotted down everything of unusual interest that he heard in conversation or read in books, and it comprises notes on grammar, geometry, philosophy, history and almost every other branch of knowledge. This article is about Attica in Greece. ... Table of Geometry, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... History is the study of human affairs through time. ...

The work, deliberately devoid of sequence or arrangement, is divided into twenty books. All these have come down to us except the eighth, of which nothing remains but the index. The Noctes Atticae is valuable for the insight it affords into the nature of the society and pursuits of those times, and for the numerous excerpts it contains from the works of lost ancient authors.

One story is Androclus, which is often compiled into collections of Aesop's fables (but is not found in the Robert Temple Aesop). Androclus, a Roman slave, who lived about the time of Tiberius, is the hero of a story told by Aulus Gellius. ... Aesop, as depicted in the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel. ... Robert K. G. Temple (born in the U.S. in 1945) is an American author best known for his controversial book, The Sirius Mystery (1976; though its writing began in 1967) which presents the idea that the Dogon people preserve the tradition of an extraterrestrial contact, contact with intelligent extraterrestrial...

Works Online

• Attic Nights (complete Latin text; English translation in progress)
• Attic Nights (selections)

References

• Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Aulus Gellius: An Antonine Author and his Achievement (Oxford University Press; revised paperback edn. 2005)

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.