Apuleius Madaurensis Metamorphoses: The Isis Book (Apuleius Madaurensis, 11) (English and Latin Edition) - Hardcover

Keulen, W. H.; Tilg, S.; Nicolini, L.; Graverini, L.; Harrison, S. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004269207 ISBN 13: 9789004269200

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2014

Synopsis

Using a transdisciplinary approach for a thorough assessment of the much-debated religious ending of the Metamorphoses, this new and detailed commentary on Apuleius' Isis book will elucidate the narrative in its literary, religious, archaeological and cultural context.

About this title

About the Author:

Wytse Keulen currently teaches Latin at the University of Rostock. His commentary on Apuleius' Metamorphoses Book I (Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius) appeared in 2007. He also published a monograph on Aulus Gellius (Gellius the Satirist: Roman Cultural Authority in Attic Nights, Leiden: Brill 2009).

Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser is professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Göttingen. She presented a monograph on Apuleius' Isis Book (2000). A monograph on literary forms and functions of the Roman convivium from Cicero to Athenaios is forthcoming.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9004269207
• ISBN 13: 9789004269200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 681