Phlegon of Tralles Book of Marvels
Phlegon of Tralles Book of Marvels The Book of Marvels, a compilation of marvellous events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature, was composed in the second century A.D. This remarkable text…
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Phlegon of Tralles Book of Marvels
The Book of Marvels, a compilation of marvellous events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature, was composed in the second century A.D. This remarkable text is the earliest surviving work of pure sensationalism in Western literature. by Phlegon of Tralles, a Greek freedman of the Roman emperor Hadrian.
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 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.