Apuleius and Africa
The Metamorphoses or Golden Ass of Apuleius (ca. 170 CE) is a Latin novel written by a native of Madauros in Roman North Africa, roughly equal to modern Tunisia together with parts of Libya and Algeria. Apuleius' novel is based on the model of a lost Greek novel; it narrates the adventures of a Greek character with a Roman name who spends the bulk of the novel transformed into an animal, traveling from Greece to Rome only to end his adventures in the capital city of the empire as a priest of the Egyptian goddess Isis. Apuleius' Florida and Apology deal more explicitly with the African provenance and character of their author while also demons…
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Weitere Autoren: Finkelpearl, Ellen (Hrsg.) / Graverini, Luca (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-136-25408-6
- EAN: 9781136254086
- Produktnummer: 17021713
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'490 KB
- Abbildungen: 21 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 24 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 3 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Benjamin Todd Lee is Associate Professor of Classics at Oberlin College, USA.Ellen Finkelpearl is Helen Chandler Garland Professor of Ancient Studies and Professor of Classics at Scripps College, USA.Luca Graverini is 'Ricercatore' of Latin Literature in the Department of Philology at the University of Siena, Italy.
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