Author: Apuleius of Madauros
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004295070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Preliminary material /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- INTRODUCTION /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- SIGLA /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- TEXT AND TRANSLATION /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- COMMENTARY /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- ADDENDA /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CONSULTED /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS -- GENERAL INDEX /J. GWYN GRIFFITHS.
Author: Apuleius
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004042704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Author: W.H. Keulen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004221239
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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The contributions to this volume on the Isis Book reassess current interpretations, highlight aspects of text, language, and style, and develop new lines of approach regarding the interpretation of this fascinating many-layered text, the last book of Apuleius’ famous novel.
Author: Stavros Frangoulidis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110210037
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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This is the first in-depth study of Apuleius' Metamorphoses to look at the different attitudes characters adopt towards magic as a key to deciphering the complex dynamics of the entire work. The variety of responses to magic is unveiled in the narrative as the protagonist Lucius encounters an assortment of characters, either in embedded tales or in the main plot. A contextualized approach illuminates Lucius' relatively good fortune when compared to other characters in the novel ‒ this results from his involvement with the magic of a sorcerer's apprentice, rather than that of a real witch, and signals the possibility of eventual salvation. A careful investigation of Lucius' attitude towards Isis in book 11 and his relationship with the witch-slave girl Photis earlier on suggests that the novel's final book may be read as a second "Metamorphoses", consciously rewritten from a positive perspective. Last but not least, the book also breaks new ground by examining the narrative structure of the Metamorphoses against the background of the typical plotline found in the ideal romance. The comparison shows how Apuleius both follows and alters this plot, exploiting the genre to his own specific ends, in keeping with his central theme of metamorphosis.
Author: Ovid
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Author: Marvin W. Meyer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Zeus and the other gods of shining Olympus were in reality divine only by popular consent. Over the course of time Olympian luster diminished in favor of religious experiences more immediate to the concerns of people living in an increasingly cosmopolitan ancient world. These experiences were provided by the mysteries, religions that flourished particularly during the Hellenistic period and were secretly practiced by groups of adherents who decided, through personal choice, to be initiated into the profound realities of one deity or another. Unlike the official state religions, in which people were expected to make an outward show of allegiance to the local gods, the mysteries emphasized an inwardness and privacy of worship within a closed band of initiates. In this book, Marvin W. Meyer explores the sacrifices and prayers, the public celebrations and secret ceremonies, the theatrical performances and literary works, the gods and goddesses that were a part of the mystery religions of Greece in the seventh century B.C. to the Judaism and Christianity of the Roman world of the seventh century A.D.
Author: Wytse Hette Keulen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004169865
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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Noting previously unrecognised allusions to literary works and contemporary events, this book presents an original portrait of the miscellanist Aulus Gellius ("Attic Nights") as a satirical writer and a Roman intellectual working within the cultural milieu of Antonine Rome.
Author: Geoffrey C. Benson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108475558
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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Argues that invisibility is a central motif in Apuleius' Metamorphoses, presenting a new interpretation of this Latin masterpiece.
Author: Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN: 3647540307
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 551
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The volume focuses on the various representations of the Beyond in later Antiquity, a period of intense interaction and competition between various religious traditions and ideals of education. The concepts and images clustering around the Beyond form a crucial focal point for understanding the dynamics of religion and education in later Antiquity. Although Christianity gradually supersedes the pagan traditions, the literary representations of the Beyond derived from classical literature and transmitted through the texts read at school show a remarkable persistence: they influence Christian late antique writers and are still alive in medieval literature of the East and West. A specifically Christian Beyond develops only gradually, and coexists subsequently with pagan ideas, which in turn vary according to the respective literary and philosophical contexts. Thus, the various conceptualisations of the great existential unknown, serves here as a point of reference for mirroring the changes and continuities in Imperial and Late Antique religion, education, and culture, and opening up further perspectives into the Medieval world.
Author: Thomas M. Finn
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 1616438444
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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