Apuleius, S J Harrison, J L Hilton, Vincent Hunink

Apuleius

Rhetorical Works

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

They also give important information on civic life in Carthage through their treatment of proconsuls and the local senate. The De Deo Socratis, probably also from the 160s, is an oration in the form of a popular philosophical lecture on the 'god' of Socrates, the inner voice which, according to Plato, advised him;. This is the only surviving sophistic declamation in Latin. The material is treated brilliantly by Apuleius, being much ornamented with poetic quotation and rhetorical and stylistic pyrotechnics.

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This edition, the first with a full commentary in English to appear for eighty years, sensitively elucidates the subtle art with which this transformation has been accomplished, and comprehensively illustrates both Apuleius' inventive handling of his various models and sources and the exuberant and idiosyncratic Latinity which forms the vehicle for it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780198152927
• ISBN-10: 0198152922
• Artikelnr.: 21461661

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Abbreviations and references
Introduction
1. The author
2. The book
3. The 'meaning' of the Metamorphoses
4. The story of Cupid and Psyche
5. Style and language
6. The text
Commentary
Indexes.