Apuleius and Africa

ISBN-13: 9780415533096 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 344 str.

Benjamin Todd Lee; Ellen Finkelpearl; Luca Graverini

Opis

'The Metamorphoses' or 'Golden Ass of Apuleius' (ca. 170 CE) is a Latin novel written by a native of Madauros in Roman North Africa, roughly equal to modern Tunisia together with parts of Libya and Algeria. Apuleius' novel is based on the model of a lost Greek novel; it narrates the adventures of a Greek character with a Roman name who spends the bulk of the novel transformed into an animal, traveling from Greece to Rome only to end his adventures in the capital city of the empire as a priest of the Egyptian goddess Isis.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: Historical Contexts 1. Apuleius’ Apology: Text and Context Keith Bradley 2. Authority and Subjectivity in the Apology Carlos F. Noreña 3. How Apuleius Survived: The African Connection Julia Haig Gaisser 4. Apuleius and the Classical Canon Joseph Farrell Part II: Cultural Contexts 5. Apuleius and Africitas Silvia Mattiacci 6. The Negotiation of Provincial Identity through Literature: Apuleius and Vergil Luca Graverini 7. Fronto and Apuleius: Two African Careers in the Roman Empire Wytse Keulen 8. "Identity" and "Identification" in Apuleius’ Apologia, Florida and Metamorphoses David L. Stone 9. Libyca Psyche: Apuleius’ Narrative and Berber Folktales Emmanuel and Nedjima Plantade Part III: Theoretical Approaches 10. Apuleius and Afroasiatic Poetics Daniel L. Selden 11. Procul a nobis: Apuleius and India Sonia Sabnis 12. Prosthetic Origins: Apuleius the Afro-Platonist Richard Fletcher 13. A Sociological Reading of A.V. ("Africae Viri"): Apuleius and the Logic of Post-Colonialism Benjamin Todd Lee

O autorze

Benjamin Todd Lee is Associate Professor of Classics at Oberlin College, USA.

Ellen Finkelpearl is Helen Chandler Garland Professor of Ancient Studies and Professor of Classics at Scripps College, USA.

Luca Graverini is ‘Ricercatore’ of Latin Literature in the Department of Philology at the University of Siena, Italy.