Paideia at play : learning and wit in Apuleius / edited by Werner Riess.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Riess, Werner, editor.

Conference Name:

Apuleius and the Second Sophistic: an Orator at Play (2007 : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), issuing body.

Series:

Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; 11.

Ancient narrative. Supplementum, 1568-3540 ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second Sophistic movement.

Education, Ancient.

Apuleius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Place of Publication:

Groningen : Barkhuis Publishing : Groningen University Library, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Paidea, the yearning for, and display of knowledge, reached its' height as a cultural concept in the works of the Second Sophistic, an elite literary and philosophical movement seeking to ape the style and achievements of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. A crucial element in the display of paidea was an ability to mix the witty and playful with the serious and instructive. The Second Sophistic is known as a Greek phenomenon, but these essays ask how the Latin author Apuleius fitted into this framework, and created a distinctively latin expression of paidea, focusing on the elements of playfulness

Contents:

The sophist at play in court : Apuleius' Apology and his literary career / Stephen J. Harrison

Legal strategy and learned display in Apuleius' Apology / James B. Rives

Apuleius Socrates Africanus? : Apuleius' defensive play / Werner Reiss

Homer in Apuleius' Apology / Vincent Hunink

The "riches" of poverty : literary games with poetry in Apuleius' Luas Paupertatis (Apology 18) / Thomas D. McCreight

Eloquentia ludens : Apuleius' Apology and the cheerful side of standing trial / Stefan Tilg

Centaus solis fabulis : a symposiastic reading of Apuleius' novel / Maaike Zimmerman

A festival of laughter : Lucius, Milo and Isis playing the game of Hospitium / Robert E. Vander Poppen

Social commentary in the Metamorphoses : Apuleius' play with satire / Elizabeth M. Greene

Playing with elegy : tales of lovers in books 1 and 2 of Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Amanda G. Mathis

Vigilans somniabar : some narrative uses of dreams in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / David P.C. Carlisle

Apuleian Ecphraseis : depiction at play / Niall W. Slater.

Notes:

"This volume presents a collection of revised versions of papers originally read at the international conference "Apuleius and the second sophistic : an orator at play," which took place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on March 23-25, 2007"--P. [vii].

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-280) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789491431463

9491431463