Apuleius' Platonism by Richard Fletcher
Apuleius of Madauros, writing in the latter half of the second century CE in Roman North Africa, is best known to us today for his Latin fiction, the Metamorphoses aka The Golden Ass, about a man who turned into a donkey and back again. However, he was also a Platonic philosopher, who, even though many of his writings are lost, wrote a range of rhetorical and philosophical works which survive to this day. This book examines these works to reveal how Apuleius' Platonism is a result of his 'impersonation of philosophy', that is, a rhetorically powerful methodological tool that allows him to 'speak' on behalf of Plato and his philosophy. This book is the first exploration of the full scope of his idiosyncratic brand of Platonism across his multifarious literary corpus and is a major contribution to the study of the dynamic between literature and philosophy in antiquity and beyond.-
M. I. Finley
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The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World
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Aristotle on the Sense-Organs
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Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World
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Sociological Studies in Roman History
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Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns
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The Sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire
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Emperor and Senators in the Reign of Constantius II
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Performing Citizenship in Plato's Laws
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Statius and Epic Games
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Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity
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Terence and the Language of Roman Comedy
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Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt 2 Volume Hardback Set
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Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity
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Relative Clauses in Proto-Indo-European
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Aristotle on Female Animals
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The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De rerum natura
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The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B
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Latin Translation in the Renaissance
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Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition
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Aristotle on Desire
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The Monochord in Ancient Greek Harmonic Science
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Hesiodic Voices
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Lucan and the Sublime
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Ammianus Marcellinus
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Introspection and Engagement in Propertius
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Theatrical Reenactment in Pindar and Aeschylus
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The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought
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Ovid, Aratus and Augustus
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The Seleucid Army
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Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia
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Peasants and Slaves
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Playing Hesiod
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The Origin of Roman London
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The Roman Bazaar
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Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily
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Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean
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Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae
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Philosophical Life in Cicero's Letters
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Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek
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Vision and Narrative in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon
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Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology
'Apuleius' Platonism is a thoughtful and thought-provoking addition to the libraries of scholars from several fields, including ancient rhetoric, the ancient novel, and those who work on the dynamic between philosophy and literature' Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Richard Fletcher is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at Ohio State University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107025479 |
| ISBN 10 | 1107025478 |
| Title | Apuleius' Platonism |
| Author | Richard Fletcher |
| Series | Cambridge Classical Studies |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2014-07-17 |
| Number of pages | 332 |
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