Research Catalog

Title

Paideia at play : learning and wit in Apuleius / edited by Werner Riess.

Publication

Groningen : Barkhuis Publishing : Groningen University Library, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Apuleius and the Second Sophistic: an Orator at Play (2007 : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Riess, Werner

Description

xxi, 302 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Ancient narrative. Supplementum, 1568-3540 ; 11

Uniform Title

Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; 11.

Subject

• Apuleius
• Second Sophistic movement
• Education, Ancient

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-280) and indexes.

Language (note)

• Text in English and Latin.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The sophist at play in court: Apuleius' Apology and his literary career / Stephen J. Harrison -- Legal strategy and learned display in Apuleius' Apology / James B. Rives -- Apuleius Socrates Africanus? Apuleius' defensive play / Werner Reiss -- Homer in Apuleius' Apology / Vincent Hunink -- The "riches" of poverty: literary games with poetry in Apuleius' Luas Paupertatis (Apology 18) -- / Thomas D. Mccreight -- Eloquentia ludens - Apuleius' Apology and the cheerful side of standing trial / Stefan Tilg -- Centaus solis fabulis: a symposiastic reading of Apuleius' novel / Maaike Zimmerman -- A festival of laughter: Lucius, Milo and Isis playing the game of Hospitium / Robert E. Vander Poppen -- Social commentary in the Metamorphoses: Apuleius' play with satire / Elizabeth M. Greene -- Playing with elegy: tales of lovers in books 1 and 2 of Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Amanda G. Mathis -- Vigilans somniabar: some narrative uses of dreams in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / David P.C. Carlisle -- Apuleian Ecphraseis: depiction at play / Niall W. Slater.

ISBN

• 9789077922415 (hd.bd.)
• 9077922415 (hd.bd.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library