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Apuleius - S. J. Harrison

Apuleius

A Latin Sophist

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
292 Seiten
2004
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-927138-2 (ISBN)
CHF 129,95 inkl. MwSt
This book provides a general account of the works of the Latin writer Apuleius, most famous for his great novel the 'Metamorphoses' or 'Golden Ass'. Living in second-century North Africa, Apuleius was more than an author; he was an orator and professional intellectual, Platonist philosopher, extraordinary stylist and more.
This book is a response to the literary pleasures and scholarly problems of reading the texts of Apuleius, most famous for his novel Metamorphoses or Golden Ass. Living in second-century North Africa, Apuleius was more than an author of fiction; he was a consummate orator and professional intellectual, Platonist philosopher, extraordinary stylist, relentless self-promoter, and versatile author of a remarkably diverse body of work, much of which is lost to us. This book is written for those able to read Apuleius in Latin, and Apuleian works are accordingly quoted without translation (although where they exist suitable translations have been indicated). In this book Dr Harrison has provided a literary handbook to all the works of Apuleius as well as the Metamorphoses, and has set his works against their intellectual background: not only Apuleius' career as a performing intellectual, a sophist, in second-century Roman North Africa, but also the larger contemporary framework of the Greek Second Sophistic. While focusing primarily on the texts as literature and literary-historical, the book also deals with Apuleius' works of didactic philosophy and his consequent connection with Middle Platonism.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.2.2004
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 217 mm
Gewicht 418 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-927138-0 / 0199271380
ISBN-13 978-0-19-927138-2 / 9780199271382
Zustand Neuware
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