Apuleius: Rhetorical Works

ISBN-13: 9780198152927 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 240 str.

Lucius Apuleius;Apuleius; S. J. Harrison

Opis

These rhetorical texts by Apuleius, second-century Latin writer and author of the famous novel Metamorphoses or Golden Ass, have not been translated in English since 1909. They are some of the very few Latin speeches surviving from their century, and constitute important evidence for Latin and Roman North African social and intellectual culture in the second century AD. They are the work of a talented writer who is being increasingly viewed as the major literary artist of his time in Latin. The translations are presented with explanatory notes.

Recenzje

The fairly extensive notations in all three selections are excellent and will be useful to a range of readers.

O autorze

S. J. Harrison is Fellow and Tutor of Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. John L. Hilton is Lecturer in Classics, University of Natal, Durban. Vincent Hunink is Lecturer at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands.