FANTASTIC!!! I had to read the first book of this collection for a book discussion with the Kosmos Society for Classical Studies. I hadn't heard of the author before, and now I'm on a mission to make this wonderful ancient Roman author known. If you never read Attic Nights, the only surviving work by Aulus Gellius, you are missing out on a treasure!

Gellius is a linguist, historian, philosopher, literary critic, and a story teller. He has collected notes in all these subjects and he named his work Attic Nights because he started it during the nights of an Attic winter. In many of his notes, the works of people he mentions have not survived, so we only know of them because of him. Other stories, we might know them or have heard them without the knowledge that they were first recorded in writing by Gellius. For instance, many of us might know or have heard the story of Androcles & the Lion, but how many of us knew and connected this popular story with Aulus Gellius for its original source instead of Aesop?

Fascinating read! I absolutely love it! There are twenty books. I have now finished the first collection of books 1-5, and looking forward to uncover the treasures of the remaining fifteen.