Apuleius and Antonine Rome : : Historical Essays /

Apuleius and Antonine Rome : : Historical Essays / / Keith Bradley.

Apuleius and Antonine Rome features outstanding scholarship by Keith Bradley on the Latin author Apuleius of Madauros and on the second-century Roman world in which Apuleius lived. Bradley discusses Apuleius' work in the context of social relations (especially the family and household), religio...

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Bradley, Keith,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2012
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Phoenix Supplementary Volumes ; 50
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • 1. Law, Magic, and Culture in Apuleius's Apology
  • 2. Contending with Conversion: Reflections on the Re-formation of Lucius the Ass
  • 3. Romanitas and the Roman Family: The Evidence of Apuleius's Apology
  • 4. Animalizing the Slave: The Truth of Fiction
  • 5. Fictive Families: Family and Household in Apuleius's Metamorphoses
  • 6. Sacrificing the Family: Christian Martyrs and Their Kin
  • 7. Apuleius and Carthage
  • 8. Appearing for the Defence: Apuleius on Display
  • 9. Apuleius and the Sub-Saharan Slave Trade
  • 10. Apuleius and Jesus
  • 11. Lucius and Isis: History in Apuleius's Metamorphoses
  • 12. Apuleius and Adultery in the Age of the Antonines
  • APPENDIX
  • SUPPLEMENT OF IMAGES
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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