The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass : : A Study in Transmission and Reception / / Julia Haig Gaisser.
This book traces the transmission and reception of one of the most influential novels in Western literature. The Golden Ass, the only ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety, tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic and his bawdy adventures and narrow escapes before the goddess Isis...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Martin Classical Lectures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 20 color illus. 6 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass
- Chapter 1 Apuleius: A Celebrity and His Image
- Chapter 2 Exemplary Behavior: The Golden Ass from Late Antiquity to the Prehumanists
- Chapter 3 A Mixed Reception: Interpreting and Illuminating the Golden Ass in the Fourteenth Century
- Chapter 4 Making an Impression: From Florence to Rome and from Manuscript to Print
- Chapter 5 Telling Tales: The Golden Ass in Ferrara and Mantua
- Chapter 6 Apuleius Redux: Filippo Beroaldo Comments on the Golden Ass
- Chapter 7 Speaking in Tongues: Translations of the Golden Ass
- Conclusion The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass
- Appendix 1 Ancient Readers of Apuleius (ca. 350 to ca. 550 AD)
- Appendix 2 Manuscripts of Apuleius' Metamorphoses
- Appendix 3 Extant Manuscripts of the Metamorphoses Written before 1400
- Appendix 4 The Florentine Connection
- Appendix 5 Adlington and His Sources for Met. 11.1
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index