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Author : Geoffrey C. Benson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781108468657
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (686 download)
Download or read book Apuleius' Invisible Ass written by Geoffrey C. Benson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey C. Benson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108475558
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Apuleius' Invisible Ass written by Geoffrey C. Benson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that invisibility is a central motif in Apuleius' Metamorphoses, presenting a new interpretation of this Latin masterpiece.
Author : Apuleius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Cupid & Psyche written by Apuleius and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Warren S. Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000813002
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Religion and Apuleius' Golden Ass written by Warren S. Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines Apuleius’ comic donkey novel, The Golden Ass, within the context of the popular beliefs and Jewish and Christian writings that were part of the intellectual culture of his own day in 2nd century C.E. North Africa, a culture which can also be glimpsed in some early Arabic writings. The novel was written against a cultural and religious background in which the donkey had various connotations, both positive and negative, but tended to be admired in Jewish, Christian, and later, in Muslim writings. Smith explores the influence of such popular opinions on The Golden Ass and how Apuleius presented Isis and Osiris as desirable alternatives to the claims of both Christianity and magic, offering hope of spiritual renewal partly modelled on contemporary religious apocalyptic literature. Complemented by images of contemporary art, including amulets and terra cotta figures, this volume gives readers a better understanding of how Apuleius, ostensibly a Platonist and member of the Roman establishment, could maintain an intellectual independence in a North African milieu while still drawing on hope in the salvation of the gods. Religion and Apuleius’ Golden Ass provides a fascinating new approach to this much disputed novel, of interest not only to students and scholars of Apuleius and Roman literature, but also scholars interested in Christian and Jewish literature and beliefs of the early centuries of the first millennium C.E.
Author : Apuleius
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014190450X
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Golden Ass written by Apuleius and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of the many adventures of a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to be transformed into a donkey. The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and Lucius is initiated into her cult. Apuleius' enchanting story has inspired generations of writers such as Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats with its dazzling combination of allegory, satire, bawdiness and sheer exuberance, and remains the most continuously and accessibly amusing book to have survived from Classical antiquity.
Author : Vernon L. Provencal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350005991
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Faulkner’s Reception of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass in The Reivers written by Vernon L. Provencal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faulkner's final novel, The Reivers, has been gently dismissed by scholars and critics as no more than its subtitle claims, A Reminiscence. Although the new millennium has seen a new appreciation for Faulkner's later novels, The Reivers is still perceived as a slightly fictionalized comic memoir romanticizing the early life of the author in the pre-civil rights American South. This volume takes this dismissal of The Reivers to task for failing to appreciate its employment of the Apuleian narrative of life-altering metamorphosis to offer, as his literary farewell, hope for humanity's self-redemption. Vernon L. Provencal studies the reception of The Golden Ass in The Reivers as comic novels of moral katabasis (wilful descent into the lawless underworld) and providential anabasis (societal and spiritual redemption). As the independent basis of the reception study, The Reivers receives its first ever detailed reading, while The Golden Ass is read anew from the teleological perspective offered by the (undervalued) prophecy that in the end the comic hero would become the book itself.
Author : Lucius Apuleius
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8027235324
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book THE GOLDEN ASS written by Lucius Apuleius and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Golden Ass" or "The Metamorphoses" is the only Latin novel by Apuleius to survive in its entirety. Adapted from an earlier Greek story, "The Golden Ass" tells of the adventures of Lucius, a young man who is obsessed with magic. In attempting to perform a spell, Lucius inadvertently transforms himself into an ass. His long and arduous journey is ornately illustrated by Apuleius' witty, imaginative, and often explicit language, in a series of subplots that carry the reader through to Lucius' salvation by the goddess Isis. These include the stories of Cupid and Psyche, Aristomenes, Thelyphron and others. The novel reflects Apuleius' own fascination with magic and the occult, and although comical at times, contains very serious messages about impiety towards the gods, and the risks of tampering with the supernatural. Apuleius (c. 125-c. 180) was a student of Platonist philosophy and Latin prose writer.
Author : Apuleius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Golden Ass written by Apuleius and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Apuleius
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Golden Asse written by Apuleius and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Golden Asse" by Apuleius. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Lucius Apuleius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792868115
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)
Download or read book The Golden Ass (Annotated) written by Lucius Apuleius and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucius, the narrator, is journeying to Thessaly. On his way he meets a mannamed Aristomenes, who tells him a story of Socrates, a friend of his whom heencountered along the road. Socrates had fallen in with a witch, who later killedhim and frightened Aristomenes. Lucius believes the man's story and isintrigued.In Thessaly he stays with Milo and his wife, Pamphile, a notorious witch. Luciusencounters his aunt, Byrrhena, who warns him of Pamphile. While in townLucius is also the centerpiece of the festival of Laughter when, drunkenly, hestabs three wineskins thinking they are robbers and is taken to a fake trial.Lucius begins to sleep with the maid, Photis. He begs her to let him watchPamphile do magic, and Photis grudgingly agrees. They watch Pamphile turninto a bird, and after she leaves, Lucius clamors for the ointment she used.Photis accidentally gives him the wrong material, and he turns into an ass. He isterrified and angry, and Photis tells him the only way he can turn human againis by eating roses.Milo's house is robbed by a group of bandits, who take Lucius with him. He isbeaten up and dragged to exhaustion. In the bandits' cave they bring in a youngwoman whom they'd kidnapped from a neighboring town for ransom. The oldwoman who tends them tells the girl the story of Cupid and Psyche.In this tale, Psyche is a beautiful mortal woman. She is isolated from her familywhen a prophecy says she will marry a winged monster. The wind Zephyr takesher from the top of a mountain into a valley and a splendid home, where her newhusbands comes to her. It is Cupid, although he is invisible and does not revealhis true identity to her. He falls in love with her even though his mother Venus isdeathly jealous of the girl's beauty, and Psyche falls in love with him too. Hewarns her of her cruel and evil sisters, but she is too curious and easily swayedthat she disobeys his commands and eventually severs the ties between them. Heleaves her and she despairs, and seeks revenge on her sisters. She then tries tofind Cupid and eventually decides to go to Venus to grovel before her. Venusloathes the girl and gives her impossible tasks to perform. Psyche receives helpfor all the tasks, including Cupid on the last one, as he decides he still loves her.Finally Jupiter intervenes and says Venus must be okay with her son's wife. Hemakes Psyche a god, and she and Cupid have a daughter.The old woman ends the story. Not long after, the kidnapped girl, Charite, isrescued by her new husband, Tlepolemus, and the townspeople kill most of thebandits. Lucius is honored and treated well, but he is given to a young boy as acaretaker; the boy is terribly cruel and vile, and is eventually killed by a hugebear.
Author : Lucius Apuleius
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Golden Ass written by Lucius Apuleius and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apuleius (c. 125-c. 180) was a student of Platonist philosophy and Latin prose writer who produced the novel "Metamorphoses", more popularly known as "The Golden Ass". This work is the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety. Adapted from an earlier Greek story, "The Golden Ass" tells of the adventures of Lucius, a young man who is obsessed with magic. In attempting to perform a spell, Lucius inadvertently transforms himself into an ass. His long and arduous journey is ornately illustrated by Apuleius' witty, imaginative, and often explicit language, in a series of subplots that carry the reader through to Lucius' salvation by the goddess Isis. These include the stories of Cupid and Psyche, Aristomenes, Thelyphron and others. The novel reflects Apuleius' own fascination with magic and the occult, and although comical at times, contains very serious messages about impiety towards the gods, and the risks of tampering with the supernatural.
Author : Apuleius
Publisher : Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Metamorphoses book III written by Apuleius and published by Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryn Mawr Commentaries provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient Greek and Latin literature. They assume that the student will know the basics of grammar and vocabulary and then provide the specific grammatical and lexical notes that a student requires to begin the task of interpretation. Hackett Publishing Company is the exclusive distributor of the Bryn Mawr Commentaries in North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
Author : Evelyn Adkins
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472133055
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses written by Evelyn Adkins and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth examination of speech and discourse as tools of characterization in Apuleius' Metamorphoses
Author : Stephen Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192677586
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Apuleius in European Literature written by Stephen Harrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Cupid and Psyche is first known through the Latin novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius—one of the few Latin fictions from Roman antiquity to have survived in its entirety. Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and Psyche since 1650 examines the reception of the long two-book romantic story of Cupid and Psyche in European literature from 1650 to the present day, with some attention also devoted to fine art and opera across this period. Stephen Harrison and Regine May argue that Cupid and Psyche had a broad and profound influence on certain important and specific areas of European culture; it was appropriated and adapted to suit particular cultural and generic contexts, especially the development of the fairy tale. This constitutes an important strand of the more general reception of the ancient novel, since the tale of Cupid and Psyche is arguably the most famous section of any fiction from Greece or Rome. Apuleius' story has enjoyed an extraordinarily rich reception throughout the five centuries from its rediscovery in the Renaissance to the present day. Previous studies of this reception have focused on the tale's prominence in Renaissance art and literature, or otherwise on its status in the German Romantic period. This book goes further and wider, ranging across literary genres in English, French, German and Dutch, encompassing poetry and drama as well as prose fiction, and covering all the key elements of the tale's reception from 1650 to the present. We hereby rediscover a tale that today remains as relevant and ripe for appropriation as ever.
Author : Apuleius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book ... The Golden Ass written by Apuleius and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Apuleius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius written by Apuleius and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yekaterina Barbash
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1649030576
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Afterlives of Egyptian History written by Yekaterina Barbash and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the myriad lifetimes lived by ancient Egyptian artifacts Egypt has a particular longue durée, a continuity of preservation in deep time, not seen in other parts of the world. Over the centuries, ancient buildings have been adopted for purposes that differed from the original. Temple sites have been transformed into places of worship for new deities or turned into houses and tombs. Tombs, in turn, have been adapted to function as human dwellings already in the Late Antique Period. The Afterlives of Egyptian History expands on the traditional academic approach of studying the original function and sociopolitical circumstances of ancient Egyptian objects, texts, and sites to examine their secondary lives by exploring their reuse, modification, and reinterpretation. Written in honor of the Egyptologist, Edward Bleiberg, this volume brings together a group of luminous scholars from a wide range of fields, including Egyptian archaeology, philology, conservation, and art, to explore the historical circumstances, as well as political and economic situations, of people who have come into contact with ancient Egypt, both in antiquity and in more recent times. Contributor Affiliations: Yekaterina Barbash, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA Lisa Bruno, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA Simon Connor, F.R.S.–FNRS, Brussels, Belgium and University of Liege, Liege, Belgium Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA Richard Fazzini, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA Peter Lacovara, Ancient Egyptian Archaeology and Heritage Fund, Albany, NY USA Ronald J. Leprohon, University of Toronto, Canada Mary McKercher, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA Edmund Meltzer, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, California USA Joachim Friedrich Quack, Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio USA Paul Edmund Stanwick, independent scholar, New York, NY USA Emily Teeter, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA Kathy Zurek-Doule, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA
