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Apuleius’ Florida: a Commentary

By Lee , Benjamin Todd

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2012
ISBN
9783110894059, 311089405X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9166364 bytes)
Series
Texte und Kommentare 25.
Pages
223\227
Topic
Literature
Time added
2018-07-05 18:46:44
addressesetcLatin -- History and criticism;SpeechesLatin;Apuleius;Madauros;RhetorikSpeeches

Description

The Florida, an anthology of 23 orations that Apuleius of Madauros delivered primarily in Carthage during the 160’s A.D., offers a rich store of evidence about epideictic rhetoric, Middle Platonism, and the civic and intellectual life of the North African provincial metropolis. In addition to locating the work in its historical and cultural context, this commentary investigates Apuleius’ remarkable language and style. Full attention is given to the rich and complex intertextual relationship of the Florida to earlier Greek and Roman literature, as well as to the work’s extensive links to Middle Platonism, the Second Sophistic, and the rest of the Apuleian corpus, particularly his philosophical works. Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS USED IN THE COMMENTARY -- INTRODUCTION -- SIGLA -- TEXT of the Florida -- NOTES AND COMMENTARY ON FLORIDA FRAGMENTS 1-23 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEXES.

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