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The Protean Ass - The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Hardcover) Loot Price: R5,620
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The Protean Ass - The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Hardcover): Robert H. F. Carver

The Protean Ass - The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Hardcover)

Robert H. F. Carver

Series: Oxford Classical Monographs

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The Protean Ass provides the most comprehensive account (in any language) of the reception of The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses) of Apuleius, the only work of Latin prose fiction worthy of the name of 'novel' to survive intact from the ancient world. Apuleius' second-century account of the curious young man who is changed into a donkey following an affair with a witch's slave-girl, and undergoes a series of adventures (involving robbery, adultery, buggery, and bestiality) before a divine vision transforms him into a disciple of the goddess Isis, has delighted, perplexed, and inspired readers as diverse as St Augustine, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Robert H. F. Carver traces readers' responses to the novel from the third to the seventeenth centuries in North Africa, Italy, France, Germany, and England

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
Release date: December 2007
First published: February 2008
Authors: Robert H. F. Carver
Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921786-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
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LSN: 0-19-921786-6
Barcode: 9780199217861

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