Author: Leonardo Costantini
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311061667X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 379
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Despite the growing interest in Apuleius’ Apologia or Pro se de magia, a speech he delivered in AD 158/159 to defend himself against the charge of being a magus, the only comprehensive study on this speech and magic to date is that by Adam Abt (1908). The aim of this volume is to shed new light on the extent to which Apuleius’ speech reveals his own knowledge of magic, and on the implications of the dangerous allegations brought against Apuleius. By analysing the Apologia sequentially, the author does not only reassess Abt’s analysis but proposes a new reconstruction of the prosecution’s case, arguing that it is heavily distorted by Apuleius. Since ancient magic is the main topic of this speech, an extensive discussion of the topic is provided, offering a new semantic taxonomy of magus and its cognates. Finally, this volume also explores Apuleius’ forensic techniques and the Platonic ideology underpinning his speech. It is proposed that a Platonising reasoning – distinguishing between higher and lower concepts – lies at the core of Apuleius’ rhetorical strategy, and that Apuleius aims to charm the judge, the audience and, ultimately, his readers with the irresistible power of his arguments.
Author: Apuleius
Publisher:
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Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Author: Apuleius
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198152927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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The Apologia, Apuleius' self-defence against a charge of magic delivered in North Africa in A.D. 158-9, has been well described as 'a masterpiece of the Second Sophistic'. It is a brilliant, lively, and colourful piece and is the only Latin forensic oration preserved from the second century A.D., providing important evidence for contemporary North African life.
Author: Apuleius
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Author: Princeton University. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Author: Princeton University. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Author: Princeton University. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Author: Harold Edgeworth Butler, Apuleius, Lucius Apuleius, Arthur Synge Owen
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 9783487401270
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Author: Apuleius
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Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Author: Jennifer Wright Knust
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231136625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Early Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Christians frequently claimed that they, and they alone were sexually virtuous, comparing themselves to those marked as outsiders, especially non-believers and "heretics," who were said to be controlled by lust and unable to rein in their carnal desires. True or not, these charges allowed Christians to present themselves as different from and morally superior to those around them. Through careful, innovative readings, Jennifer Knust explores the writings of Paul, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus of Lyons, and other early Christian authors who argued that Christ alone made self-mastery possible. Rejection of Christ led to both immoral sexual behavior and, ultimately, alienation and punishment from God. Knust considers how Christian writers participated in a long tradition of rhetorical invective, a rhetoric that was often employed to defend status and difference. Christians borrowed, deployed, and reconfigured classical rhetorical techniques, turning them against their rulers to undercut their moral and political authority. Knust also examines the use of accusations of licentiousness in conflicts between rival groups of Christians. Portraying rival sects as depraved allowed accusers to claim their own group as representative of "true Christianity." Knust's book also reveals the ways in which sexual slurs and their use in early Christian writings reflected cultural and gendered assumptions about what constituted purity, morality, and truth. In doing so, Abandoned to Lust highlights the complex interrelationships between sex, gender, and sexuality within the classical, biblical, and early-Christian traditions.
