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Apuleius' Platonism - The Impersonation of Philosophy (Paperback)
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Apuleius' Platonism - The Impersonation of Philosophy (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
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Apuleius of Madauros, writing in the latter half of the second
century CE in Roman North Africa, is best known to us today for his
Latin fiction, the Metamorphoses aka The Golden Ass, about a man
who turned into a donkey and back again. However, he was also a
Platonic philosopher, who, even though many of his writings are
lost, wrote a range of rhetorical and philosophical works which
survive to this day. This book examines these works to reveal how
Apuleius' Platonism is a result of his 'impersonation of
philosophy', that is, a rhetorically powerful methodological tool
that allows him to 'speak' on behalf of Plato and his philosophy.
This book is the first exploration of the full scope of his
idiosyncratic brand of Platonism across his multifarious literary
corpus and is a major contribution to the study of the dynamic
between literature and philosophy in antiquity and beyond.
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