| Apuleius: Rhetorical Works Contributor(s): Apuleius (Author), Harrison, S. J. (Author), Hilton, J. L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198152922 ISBN-13: 9780198152927 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $251.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2001 Annotation: This edition, the first with a full commentary in English to appear for eighty years, sensitively elucidates the subtle art with which this transformation has been accomplished, and comprehensively illustrates both Apuleius' inventive handling of his various models and sources and the exuberant and idiosyncratic Latinity which forms the vehicle for it. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001021767 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.16" W x 8.82" (0.91 lbs) 236 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece - Cultural Region - Mediterranean |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These rhetorical texts by Apuleius, second-century Latin writer and author of the famous novel Metamorphoses or Golden Ass, have not been translated in English since 1909. They are some of the very few Latin speeches surviving from their century, and constitute important evidence for Latin and Roman North African social and intellectual culture in the second century AD. They are the work of a talented writer who is being increasingly viewed as the major literary artist of his time in Latin. The translations are presented with explanatory notes. |