Preview   Can there be an artistic plan in Roman miscellany, a genre that is characterised by its heterogeneity and therefore has long been undervalued as a haphazard compilation of trivial facts? Can there be a literary architecture of the Noctes Atticae when Gellius’ Praefatio, at least initially, denies any thematic coherence? Scott DiGiulio attempts … Continue reading Reading miscellany in the Roman empire: Aulus Gellius and the imperial prose collection