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Apuleius' Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, our only complete Latin
novel, tells the story of Lucius, a young man turned into a donkey
by magic because of his unfettered curiosity. After many adventures
he is finally saved by the goddess Isis, whose follower he becomes.
The famous first book of the novel introduces the protagonist's
character, his interest in magic and his gullibility, but also
important themes of the novel such as metamorphosis from man into
beast. Lucius listens to stories about magic and witchcraft told to
him on his journey to ancient Thessaly and narrates them to the
reader. A substantial part of the first book accordingly
concentrates on the self-contained tale about a certain Socrates
and his unhappy experiences with murderous Thessalian witches.
Apuleius himself had been put on trial for allegedly using erotic
magic to make his future wife fall in love with him, a theme which
also appears in Metamorphoses 1. Throughout the novel, Apuleius
portrays Lucius as an unreliable first person narrator and thus
implicates the reader of the novel in the same character fault that
drives its protagonist: curiosity. This edition of Book I presents
the Latin text with a modern translation, substantial introduction
and accompanying commentary. The author Apuleius is discussed in
the literary environment of the second century AD together with key
themes of the first book and the novel as a whole. Special
attention is given to ancient magic, the roles of philosophy and
the goddess Isis in the novel as well as the extensive reception of
the first book in literature up to modern times. The commentary
illustrates Apuleius' text as a densely constructed literary work
and explains literary allusions as well as philosophical,
historical and religious contexts.
Apuleius' Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, our only complete Latin
novel, tells the story of Lucius, a young man turned into a donkey
by magic because of his unfettered curiosity. After many adventures
he is finally saved by the goddess Isis, whose follower he becomes.
The famous first book of the novel introduces the protagonist's
character, his interest in magic and his gullibility, but also
important themes of the novel such as metamorphosis from man into
beast. Lucius listens to stories about magic and witchcraft told to
him on his journey to ancient Thessaly and narrates them to the
reader. A substantial part of the first book accordingly
concentrates on the self-contained tale about a certain Socrates
and his unhappy experiences with murderous Thessalian witches.
Apuleius himself had been put on trial for allegedly using erotic
magic to make his future wife fall in love with him, a theme which
also appears in Metamorphoses 1. Throughout the novel, Apuleius
portrays Lucius as an unreliable first person narrator and thus
implicates the reader of the novel in the same character fault that
drives its protagonist: curiosity. This edition of Book I presents
the Latin text with a modern translation, substantial introduction
and accompanying commentary. The author Apuleius is discussed in
the literary environment of the second century AD together with key
themes of the first book and the novel as a whole. Special
attention is given to ancient magic, the roles of philosophy and
the goddess Isis in the novel as well as the extensive reception of
the first book in literature up to modern times. The commentary
illustrates Apuleius' text as a densely constructed literary work
and explains literary allusions as well as philosophical,
historical and religious contexts.
Apuleius' tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was
first written in the second century CE as part of his Latin novel
Metamorphoses. Often treated as a standalone text, Cupid and Psyche
has given rise to treatments in the last 400 years as diverse as
plays, masques, operas, poems, paintings and novels, with a range
of diverse approaches to the text. Apuleius' story of the love
between the mortal princess Psyche (or "Soul") and the god of Love
has fascinated recipients as varied as Romantic poets,
psychoanalysts, children's books authors, neo-Platonist
philosophers and Disney film producers. These readers themselves
produced their own responses to and versions of the story. This
volume is the first broad consideration of the reception of C&P
in Europe since 1600 and an adventurous interdisciplinary
undertaking. It is the first study to focus primarily on material
in English, though it also ranges widely across literary genres in
Italian, French and German, encompassing poetry, drama and opera as
well as prose fiction and art history, studied by an international
team of established and young scholars. Detailed studies of single
works and of whole genres make this book relevant for students of
Classics, English, Art History, opera and modern film.
Apuleius' tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was
first written in the second century CE as part of his Latin novel
Metamorphoses. Often treated as a standalone text, Cupid and Psyche
has given rise to treatments in the last 400 years as diverse as
plays, masques, operas, poems, paintings and novels, with a range
of diverse approaches to the text. Apuleius' story of the love
between the mortal princess Psyche (or "Soul") and the god of Love
has fascinated recipients as varied as Romantic poets,
psychoanalysts, children's books authors, neo-Platonist
philosophers and Disney film producers. These readers themselves
produced their own responses to and versions of the story. This
volume is the first broad consideration of the reception of C&P
in Europe since 1600 and an adventurous interdisciplinary
undertaking. It is the first study to focus primarily on material
in English, though it also ranges widely across literary genres in
Italian, French and German, encompassing poetry, drama and opera as
well as prose fiction and art history, studied by an international
team of established and young scholars. Detailed studies of single
works and of whole genres make this book relevant for students of
Classics, English, Art History, opera and modern film.
Regine May discusses the use of drama as an intertext in the work
of the 2nd century Latin author Apuleius, who wrote the only
complete extant Latin novel, the Metamorphoses, in which a young
man is turned into a donkey by magic. Apuleius uses drama,
especially comedy, as a basic underlying texture, and invites his
readers to use their knowledge of contemporary drama in
interpreting the fate of his protagonist and the often comic or
tragic situations in which he finds himself. May employs a close
study of the Latin text and detailed comparison with the corpus of
dramatic texts from antiquity, as well as discussion of stock
features of ancient drama, especially of comedy, in order to
explain some features of the novel which have so far baffled
Apuleian scholarship, including the enigmatic ending. All Latin and
Greek has been translated into English.
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