Apuleius Madaurensis Metamorphoses, book III : text, introduction, translation, and commentary / by Leonardo Costantini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Costantini, Leonardo, editor, translator, writter of added commentary.

Series:

Groningen commentaries on Apuleius

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Apuleius. Metamorphoses--Book 3.

Apuleius.

Latin fiction--History and criticism.

Latin fiction.

Metamorphoses (Apuleius).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 375 pages : color illustration ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2021]

Language Note:

Text in Latin and English, with commentary in English

Summary:

"Adventure, sex, magic, robbery, and dramatic declamatory displays play a central role in the plot of Apuleius' Metamorphoses III. This volume completes the prestigious Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius series. It presents a new text of Metamorphoses III provided with an English translation and a full commentary, which covers literary, linguistic, textual, narratological, and socio-cultural matters. The introduction casts new light on many aspects of Apuleius' novel, including its relationship with its lost Greek model, with the Greek love novels and with other genres (epic, poetry, declamation), Apuleius' elaborate style, the narratological features of book III and its main themes. An appendix is devoted to the manuscript transmission of the Metamorphoses: it factors in new textual evidence gathered from the first examination of several recentiores since Oudendorp (1786) and Hildebrand (1842)"--Page 4 of cover.

Adventure, sex, magic, robbery, and dramatic declamatory displays play a central role in the plot of Apuleius? 'Metamorphoses III'. This volume completes the prestigious 'Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius' series. It presents a new text of 'Metamorphoses III' provided with an English translation and a full commentary, which covers literary, linguistic, textual, narratological, and socio-cultural matters. The introduction casts new light on many aspects of Apuleius? novel, including its relationship with its lost Greek model, with the Greek love novels and with other genres (epic, poetry, declamation), Apuleius? elaborate style, the narratological features of book III and its main themes. An appendix is devoted to the manuscript transmission of the 'Metamorphoses': it factors in new textual evidence gathered from the first examination of several recentiores since Oudendorp (1786) and Hildebrand (1842).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-335) and indexes.

Contains:

Container of: Apuleius. Metamorphoses. Latin (Groningen commentaries on Apuleius)

ISBN:

9004470360

9789004470361

OCLC:

1256627995