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Author : Henry John Hodgson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Lusus Intercisi written by Henry John Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stavros Frangoulidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110210037
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Witches, Isis and Narrative written by Stavros Frangoulidis and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in-depth study of Apuleius' Metamorphoses to look at the different attitudes characters adopt towards magic as a key to deciphering the complex dynamics of the entire work. The variety of responses to magic is unveiled in the narrative as the protagonist Lucius encounters an assortment of characters, either in embedded tales or in the main plot. A contextualized approach illuminates Lucius' relatively good fortune when compared to other characters in the novel ‒ this results from his involvement with the magic of a sorcerer's apprentice, rather than that of a real witch, and signals the possibility of eventual salvation. A careful investigation of Lucius' attitude towards Isis in book 11 and his relationship with the witch-slave girl Photis earlier on suggests that the novel's final book may be read as a second "Metamorphoses", consciously rewritten from a positive perspective. Last but not least, the book also breaks new ground by examining the narrative structure of the Metamorphoses against the background of the typical plotline found in the ideal romance. The comparison shows how Apuleius both follows and alters this plot, exploiting the genre to his own specific ends, in keeping with his central theme of metamorphosis.
Author : Apuleius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521870461
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Apuleius: Metamorphoses written by Apuleius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains selections from Apuleius' famous and entertaining novel, The Metamorphoses, aimed at intermediate Latin students.
Author : Werner Riess
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9077922415
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Paideia at Play written by Werner Riess and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2008 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paidea, the yearning for, and display of knowledge, reached its height as a cultural concept in the works of the Second Sophistic, an elite literary and philosophical movement seeking to ape the style and achievements of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. A crucial element in the display of paidea was an ability to mix the witty and playful with the serious and instructive. The Second Sophistic is known as a Greek phenomenon, but these essays ask how the Latin author Apuleius fitted into this framework, and created a distinctively latin expression of paidea, focusing on the elements of playfulness at its heart.
Author : Gareth D. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199999767
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Roman Reflections written by Gareth D. Williams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of 13 essays delivered at a conference held at Columbia University in March 2012.
Author : Jeffrey P. Ulrich
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472221922
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)
Download or read book The Shadow of an Ass written by Jeffrey P. Ulrich and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2024-11-06 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey Ulrich’s The Shadow of an Ass addresses fundamental questions about the reception and aesthetic experience of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, popularly known as The Golden Ass, by situating the novel in a contemporaneous literary and philosophical discourse emerging in the Second Sophistic. This unique Latin novel follows a man who is accidentally turned into a donkey because of his curiosity, viewing the world through a donkey’s eyes until he is returned to human form by the Egyptian goddess Isis. In the end, he chooses to become a cult initiate and priest instead of a debased and overindulgent ass. On the one hand, the novel encourages readers to take pleasure in the narrator’s experiences, as he relishes food, sex, and forbidden forms of knowledge. Simultaneously, it challenges readers to reconsider their participation in the story by exposing its donkey-narrator as a failed model of heroism and philosophical investigation. Ulrich interprets the Metamorphoses as a locus of philosophical inquiry, positioning the act of reading as a choice of how much to invest in this tale of pleasurable transformation and unanticipated conversion. The Shadow of an Ass further explores how Apuleius, as a North African philosopher translating an originally Greek novel into a Latin idiolect, transforms himself into an intermediary of Platonic philosophy for his Carthaginian audience. Situating the novel in a long history of philosophical and literary conversations, Ulrich suggests that the Metamorphoses anticipates much of the philosophical burlesque we tend to associate with early modern fiction, from Don Quixote to Lewis Carroll.
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 : Edmund P. Cueva
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444336029
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the Ancient Novel written by Edmund P. Cueva and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion addresses a topic of continuing contemporary relevance, both cultural and literary. Offers both a wide-ranging exploration of the classical novel of antiquity and a wealth of close literary analysis Brings together the most up-to-date international scholarship on the ancient novel, including fresh new academic voices Includes focused chapters on individual classical authors, such as Petronius, Xenophon and Apuleius, as well as a wide-ranging thematic analysis Addresses perplexing questions concerning authorial expression and readership of the ancient novel form Provides an accomplished introduction to a genre with a rising profile
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Journal of Hellenic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yulin Liu
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161523809
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Temple Purity in 1-2 Corinthians written by Yulin Liu and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2013 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul's view of the church as the temple and his concern about its purity in 1-2 Corinthians has traditionally been interpreted from the perspective of a Jewish background. However, Yulin Liu reveals that the pagans were very aware of temple purity when visiting some temples in the Greco-Roman world, and the purification concerns of three pagan temples in Corinth are documented in his work. The author affirms that the Gentile believers among the Corinthian community were able to grasp Paul's message because of it. Also, Liu investigates Paul's use of temple purity to address the necessity of unity, holiness and faithfulness of the Corinthian Christians in an eschatological sense. The separation of God's people from profane matters actually points to a new exodus and a progressive consummation of the construction of the eschatological temple-community.
Author : Michael Paschalis
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9491431250
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel written by Michael Paschalis and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2013-01-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume comprises thirteen of the papers delivered at RICAN 5, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 25-26,2009. The theme of the volume, ‘The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel,’ allows the contributors the freedom to use their skills to examine the real and the ideal either individually or in conjunction or in interaction. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: a political reading of prose fiction in Late Period Egypt (Selden); the presence of robbers and murderers in ideal fiction (Dowden); the interaction between illusion and reality in novelistic ekphrasis (Zeitlin); divine loves as real precedents for human loves (Rosati); comical elements in Heliodorus’ Aethiopika (Doody); myths as paradigms for the inexperienced lovers in the Greek novels (Létoublon); moral ideas in the Odyssey and the Greek novels in relation to moralizing interpretations of Homer (Montiglio); the reality of the basic plot of Callirhoe in the light of historical events and Aristotle’s Poetics (Paschalis); the interaction between fictionality and reality in Daphnis and Chloe (Bowie); entrapment and insufficient understanding of reality in the Satyrica (Labate); fantasy, physical and ideal landscapes in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (König); bridging the gap between Photis (real) and Isis (ideal) in Apuleius (Carver); the gendered aesthetics of the Greek novels viewed through the lens of the mimetic theory of Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Whitmarsh).
Author : Benjamin Todd Lee
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311089405X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Apuleius' Florida written by Benjamin Todd Lee and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Florida, an anthology of 23 orations that Apuleius of Madauros delivered primarily in Carthage during the 160’s A.D., offers a rich store of evidence about epideictic rhetoric, Middle Platonism, and the civic and intellectual life of the North African provincial metropolis. In addition to locating the work in its historical and cultural context, this commentary investigates Apuleius’ remarkable language and style. Full attention is given to the rich and complex intertextual relationship of the Florida to earlier Greek and Roman literature, as well as to the work’s extensive links to Middle Platonism, the Second Sophistic, and the rest of the Apuleian corpus, particularly his philosophical works.
Author : Katherine Eliza Carver
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Social and Private Life in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius written by Katherine Eliza Carver and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9077922083
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Ancient Narrative Volume 4 written by and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9077922660
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Ancient Narrative Volume 8 written by and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Apuleius
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199277028
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Apulei Metamorphoseon Libri XI written by Apuleius and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimmerman presents a new edition of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, which was written in the second century AD and is the only ancient Latin novel to survive in its entirety. In establishing her new text edition, Zimmerman has built on important recent research on the language and style of the literary artist Apuleius.
Author : Jason König
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521886856
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Saints and Symposiasts written by Jason König and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the afterlife of the classical Greek symposium in the Greco-Roman and early Christian culture of the Roman Empire. Argues that writing about consumption and conversation continued to matter, communicating distinctive ideas about how to talk and think, and distinctive and often destabilising visions of human identity and holiness.
