An Apuleius Reader: Selections from the Metamorphoses (Bc Latin Readers) (English and Latin Edition) - Softcover

Ellen D. Finkelpearl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865167141 ISBN 13: 9780865167148

Publisher: Bolchazy Carducci Pub, 2012

Synopsis

Read less than it deserves at the undergraduate level, Apuleius Metamorphoses tells the story of Lucius the ass-man and his encounters with sex, magic, robbers, storytellers, slaves, and finally the Goddess. From the cruel mockery of the Festival of Laughter to the sweet tale of Cupid and Psyche, from adventures that question human-animal boundaries to the profoundly spiritual conclusion, Apuleius constantly mingles the serious and comic, the bizarre and surreal with the quotidian details of ancient life. The selections in this Reader are designed both to represent the variety characteristic of the Metamorphoses and to create a coherent narrative of the life and trials of Lucius (and Psyche). Attention is also given to the cultural milieu of its author (second century CE Roman North Africa). Introduction to Apuleius life and works, and to the Metamorphoses background, interpretation, and style 660 lines of unadapted Latin text selected from Apuleius Metamorphoses, BOOK 1: 1.1.1 1.2.1 BOOK 2: 2.1.1 2.2.1; 2.6 7 BOOK 3: 3.1.1 3.2.5, 3.2.7 9, 3.8.1 4, 3.9.5 3.11.6; 3.21.1 3.22.5; 3.24 26 BOOK 4: 4.4 5; 4.28.1 4.30.3 BOOK 5: 5.11.3 4; 5.22 23 BOOK 6: 6.20 21; 6.23.5 6.24.4 BOOK 9: 9.12.2 9.13.5 BOOK 10: 10.16.7 10.17.6 BOOK 11: 11.1 2; 11.5.1; 11.5.3 4; 11.13; 11.15.1 3; 11.27.9; 11.30.3 5. Notes at the back and complete vocabulary One map and four illustrations

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About the Author

Ellen Finkelpearl is Professor of Classics at Scripps College. She is the author of Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel (University of Michigan, 1998), A Survey of Scholarship on Apuleius Metamorphoses (with Carl Schlam; Lustrum, 2000), and numerous articles, mostly on Apuleius.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bolchazy Carducci Pub
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865167141
• ISBN 13: 9780865167148
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160