Apuleius: A Latin Sophist

Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Oxford Univ Pr. New. 2000. Hardcover. 0198140533 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY -- AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY -- 281 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Abbreviations of Apuleius' Works * 1 Apuleius in Context: Life, Background, Writings 1 * 2 A Sophist in Court: The Apologia 39 * 3 Sophistic Display: The Florida 89 * 4 Popular Philosophy: De Deo Souatis 136 * 5 Philosophical Exposition: De Mundo and De Platone 174 * 6 A Sophist's Novel: The Metamorphoses 210 * Bibliography 261 * Index 279. -- DESCRIPTION: This book is written for those able to read Apuleius in Latin, and Apuleian works are accordingly quoted without translation (although where they exist suitable translations have been indicated). " "In this book Dr Harrison has provided a literary handbook to all the works of Apuleius as well as the Metamorphoses, and has set these against their intellectual background: not only Apuleius' career as a performing intellectual, a sophist, in second-century Roman North Africa, but also the larger contemporary framework of the Greek Second Sophistic. While focusing primarily on the texts as literature and literary-historical, the book also deals with Apuleius' works of didactic philosophy and his consequent connection with Middle Platonism. -- with a bonus offer-- .