The Greek World Of Apuleius

Author : Gerald Sandy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004330320

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The Greek World of Apuleius by Gerald Sandy Pdf

The first three chapters of this book elucidate the scholastic goals of both classical cultures during the Roman Imperial period. Apuleius' works share the stage in these chapters with representatives of the second-century Greek cultural paradigm. They define patterns of discourse and fit selected examples of analogous Apuleian strategies into the broader cultural framework. Subsequent chapters focus closely on the complete Apuleian corpus under the general headings of Apuleius in the roles of orator, philosopher and novelist. Two of Apuleius' philosophical works and his novel the Golden Ass provide an unparalleled opportunity to analyze the methods of translation and adaptation employed by the major Latin writer of the second half of the second century.

Author : Peter D. Arnott
Publisher : London ; Melbourne [etc.] : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's P.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Greece
ISBN : UVA:X000302999

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An Introduction to the Greek World by Peter D. Arnott Pdf

Author : Gareth L. Schmeling
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004496439

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The Novel in the Ancient World by Gareth L. Schmeling Pdf

From classics and history to Jewish rabbinic narratives and the canonical and noncanonical gospels of earliest Christianity, the relevance of studying the novel of the later classical periods of Greek and Rome is widely endorsed. Ancient novels contain insights beyond literary theories and philosophical musings to new sources for understanding the popular culture of antiquity. Some scholars, in fact, refer to ancient novels as “alternative histories,” for they tell history implicitly rather than with the intentional biases of the historian. The Novel in the Ancient World surveys the new approaches and insights to the ancient novel and wrestles with issues such as the development, transformation, and christianization of the novel (Spirit-inspired versus inspired by the Muses). This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0807855200

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Rome, the Greek World, and the East by Fergus Millar Pdf

Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 2: Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire

Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807863695

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Rome, the Greek World, and the East by Fergus Millar Pdf

Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, above all The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have transformed our understanding of the communal culture and civil government of the Greco-Roman world. This second volume of the three-volume collection of Millar's published essays draws together twenty of his classic pieces on the government, society, and culture of the Roman Empire (some of them published in inaccessible journals). Every article in Volume 2 addresses the themes of how the Roman Empire worked in practice and what it was like to live under Roman rule. As in the first volume of the collection, English translations of the extended Greek and Latin passages in the original articles make Millar's essays accessible to readers who do not read these languages.

Author : Stefan Tilg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198706830

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Apuleius' Metamorphoses by Stefan Tilg Pdf

This volume reveals how Apuleius' Metamorphoses -- the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature -- works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in its text. Providing a roughly linear reading of key passages, the volume develops an original idea of Apuleius as an ambitious writer led by the literary tradition, rhetoric, and Platonism, and argues that he created what we could call a seriocomic 'philosophical novel' avant la lettre. The author focuses, in particular, on the ways in which Apuleius drew attention to his achievement and introduced the Greek ass story to Roman literature. Thus, the volume also sheds new light on the forms and the literary and intellectual potential of the genre of the ancient novel.

Author : Carl C. Schlam
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781469620718

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The Metamorphoses of Apuleius by Carl C. Schlam Pdf

This book examines the comic and philosophical aspects of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, the ancient Roman novel also known as The Golden Ass. The tales that comprise the novel, long known for their bawdiness and wit, describe the adventures of Lucius, a man who is transformed into an ass. Carl Schlam argues that the work cannot be seen as purely comic or wholly serious; he says that the entertainment offered by the novel includes a vision of the possibilities of grace and salvation. Many critics have seen a discontinuity between the comedic aspects of the first ten tales and the more elevated account in the eleventh of the initiation of Lucius into the cult of Isis. But Schlam uncovers patterns of narrative and a thematic structure that give coherence to the adventures of Lucius and to the diversity of tales embedded in the principal narrative. Schlam sees a single seriocomic purpose pervading the narrative, which is marked by elements of burlesque as well as intimations of an ethical religious purpose. As Schlam points out, however, the world of second-century Rome cannot easily be divided into the sacred and the secular. Such neat distinctions were largely unknown in the ancient world, and Apuleius' tales are a part of a tradition, flowing from Homer, that addressed both religious and philosophical issues. Originally published in 1992. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : S. J. Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199271382

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Apuleius by S. J. Harrison Pdf

This book provides the first 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, relentless self-promoter, as well as a versatile author of a remarkably diverse body of other work, much of which is lost to us.

Author : André Lardinois,van der Poel,Vincent Hunink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047409281

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Land of Dreams by André Lardinois,van der Poel,Vincent Hunink Pdf

This collection of essays, dedicated to A.H.M. Kessels, provides an overview of modern Dutch scholarship in Greek and Latin studies with special emphasis on dreams in classical literature, classical drama and the reception of Homer.

Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807875087

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Rome, the Greek World, and the East by Fergus Millar Pdf

Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, including The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have enriched our understanding of the Greco-Roman world in fundamental ways. In his writings Millar has made the inhabitants of the Roman Empire central to our conception of how the empire functioned. He also has shown how and why Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam evolved from within the wider cultural context of the Greco-Roman world. Opening this collection of sixteen essays is a new contribution by Millar in which he defends the continuing significance of the study of Classics and argues for expanding the definition of what constitutes that field. In this volume he also questions the dominant scholarly interpretation of politics in the Roman Republic, arguing that the Roman people, not the Senate, were the sovereign power in Republican Rome. In so doing he sheds new light on the establishment of a new regime by the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus.

Author : Tim Cornell,Edward Bispham,John Rich,Christopher John Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2719 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Historians
ISBN : 9780199277056

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The Fragments of the Roman Historians by Tim Cornell,Edward Bispham,John Rich,Christopher John Smith Pdf

"This title is a definitive and comprehensive edition of the fragmentary texts of all the Roman historians whose works are lost. Historical writing was an important part of the literary culture of ancient Rome, and its best-known exponents, including Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, and Suetonius, provide much of our knowledge of Roman history. However, these authors constitute only a small minority of the Romans who wrote historical works from around 200 BC to AD 250. In this period we know of more than 100 writers of history, biography, and memoirs whose works no longer survive for us to read. They include well-known figures such as Cato the Elder, Sulla, Cicero, and the emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius, Hadrian, and Septimius Severus"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Albert Rijksbaron,Irene de Jong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047417422

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Sophocles and the Greek Language by Albert Rijksbaron,Irene de Jong Pdf

This volume offers an overview of the ways in which Sophocles’ use of the Greek language is currently being studied. The book is divided into three sections, which deal with aspects of diction, syntax, and pragmatics.

Author : Suzanne Stern-Gillet,Kevin Corrigan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004165120

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Reading Ancient Texts by Suzanne Stern-Gillet,Kevin Corrigan Pdf

The contributors to this volume offer, in the light of specialised knowledge of leading philosophers of the ancient world, answers to the question: how are we to read and understand the surviving texts of Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and Augustine?

Author : Michael Gagarin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3369 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Civilization, Classical
ISBN : 9780195170726

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The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome. - Vol. 1 - 7 by Michael Gagarin Pdf

Author : H. Gregory Snyder
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0415217660

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Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World by H. Gregory Snyder Pdf

A comprehensive and accessible survey of religious and philosophical teaching and classroom practices in the ancient world.