Apuleius: Fragmentary Works (Apulei Madaurensis Operum deperditorum reliquiae) (Oxford Classical Texts)

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ISBN 10: 0198940084 / ISBN 13: 9780198940081

Published by OUP Oxford -, 2025

Seller Inventory # 6666-GRD-9780198940081

Synopsis:

This edition of Apuleius's fragmentary works presents sixty-two items, along with a larger set of dubious items, with critical apparatus. An extensive editorial preface surveys all the works either lost or falsely attributed to Apuleius, while also detailing the principles and methods underlying this edition.

About the Author: Antonio Stramaglia, Professor of Latin, University of Bari,Aldo Corcella, Professor of Classical Philology, University of Basilicata

Antonio Stramaglia is Professor of Latin at the University of Bari. He is a member of Academia Europaea and other learned institutions. In 2016-17, he was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His research focuses on Greek and Latin fiction (Apuleius, papyrus fragments), the supernatural in classical literature, ancient paradoxography, 'comics' and other forms of text-image interaction in Greece and Rome, education in antiquity (with special emphasis on declamation), Roman satire (particularly Juvenal), Galen, and Terence. He has lectured extensively in various countries and languages. In 2021 he was awarded the Tartufari Prize in Classical Philology by the Accademia dei Lincei.

Aldo Corcella is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basilicata (Potenza-Matera, Italy). He took his degree at the Università di Bari in 1983 and specialized at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (1985-1987). He previously taught Italian culture at the University of Saint Andrews, and in 2008/09 he was Visiting Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. He is a specialist in ancient historiography and rhetorics.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Apuleius: Fragmentary Works (Apulei ...
Publisher: OUP Oxford -
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: hardcover
Condition: New