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The Ass of the Gods: Apuleius' Golden Ass, the Onos Attributed to Lucian, and Graeco-Roman Metamorphosis Literature
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Kristopher F.B. Fletcher
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2023
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Apuleius’ Golden Ass and the Lucianic Loukios, or the Ass depend on and play with readers’ familiarity with the clear patterns of Greek and Roman stories of metamorphosis. The formulaic nature of these stories suggests that the appearance of a god at the end of the Golden Ass is unsurprising and that the end of the Loukios is more innovative. This context also sheds new light on the function of the Cupid and Psyche story, the meaning of these works’ titles, and the lost Metamorphoseis on which they are both based and of which the Golden Ass is a translation.
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K.F.B. Fletcher, Ph.D. (2005), University of Michigan, is Associate Professor of Classics at Louisiana State University and the author of Finding Italy: Travel, Nation, and Colonization in Vergil’s Aeneid and co-editor of Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music.
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eBook veröffentlicht am:
20. März 2023
eBook ISBN:
9789004537170
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Inhalt:
238
eBook ISBN:
9789004537170
Zielgruppe(n) für dieses Buch
The target audience is scholars and advanced students with an interest in the ancient novel, metamorphosis, Greek mythology, and Roman translation.
