Apuleius' Metamorphoses: A Study in Roman Fiction

Tilg, Stefan

ISBN 10: 0198706839 / ISBN 13: 9780198706830

Published by see below, 2014

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2014 OUP hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Apuleius' Metamorphoses: A Study in Roman Fiction
• Publisher: see below
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198706839
• ISBN 13: 9780198706830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ancient World

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Synopsis

This volume reveals how Apuleius' Metamorphoses -- the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature -- works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in its text. Providing a roughly linear reading of key passages, the volume develops an original idea of Apuleius as an ambitious writer led by the literary tradition, rhetoric, and Platonism, and argues that he created what we could call a seriocomic 'philosophical novel' avant la lettre. The author focuses, in particular, on the ways in which Apuleius drew attention to his achievement and introduced the Greek ass story to Roman literature. Thus, the volume also sheds new light on the forms and the literary and intellectual potential of the genre of the ancient novel.

About the Author

Stefan Tilg received his PhD in Classics in Innsbruck, Austria (2003). He was Assistant to the chair of Latin at the University of Bern (2003-2006). Various scholarships brought him to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, the Centre for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C., and the Klassisch-Philologisches Seminar of the University of Zurich (2006-2010). Currently he is the Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Literature in Innsbruck and Privatdozent at the University of Zurich. His main research topics have been the ancient novel and Neo-Latin drama. He is the author of Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel (OUP 2010).