A Companion to the Prologue of Apuleius' Metamorphoses
$342.50
- Hardcover
342 pages
- Release Date
13 December 2001
Summary
Nowadays we can judge books by their covers. In antiquity, when a ‘book’ was a papyrus roll, its first few words advertised the nature of the text to follow. The Prologue of Apuleius’ innovative novel, the Metamorphoses (or Golden Ass), is an extraordinary example of a programmatic opening, which has captivated readers and scholars from the Renaissance to the present day. This short text raises a variety of important questions about liberty, andabout historical and linguistic interpretation. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198152385 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198152388 |
| Author: | Ahuvia Kahane, Andrew Laird |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 342 |
| Release Date: | 13 December 2001 |
| Weight: | 504g |
| Dimensions: | 225mm x 146mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
“This book of 325 pages…is given over to only the first 119 words of Apuleius’Metamorphosesin twenty-four essays by some of the best Classicists of this generation.”–Religious Studies Review
One of the most extraordinary projects of recent times. Greece & Rome The format, provides real benefits, allowing for a more diverse exploration of the issues than a typical commentary, with each chapter teasing out a little more fully the dynamics of the Prologue and the remarkable novel it introduces Helen L. Morales, Times Literary Supplement
About The Author
Ahuvia Kahane
Andrew Laird is at University of Warwick, and Visiting Fellow in the Department of Classics at Princeton University. Ahuvia Kahane is at Northwestern University.
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