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010 $a 2008464902
020 $a9789077922415 (hbk.)
020 $a9077922415 (hbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn233544646
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050 00 $aPA6217$b.P25 2008
245 00 $aPaideia at play :$blearning and wit in Apuleius /$cedited by Werner Riess.
260 $aGroningen :$bBarkhuis Publishing :$bGroningen University Library,$c2008.
300 $axxi, 302 p. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aAncient narrative.$pSupplementum,$x1568-3540 ;$v11
546 $aText in English with passages and footnotes quoting Latin.
500 $a"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].
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [263]-280) and indexes.
505 0 $aThe 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.
600 10 $aApuleius.
650 0 $aSecond Sophistic movement.
650 0 $aEducation, Ancient.
700 1 $aRiess, Werner.
711 2 $aApuleius and the Second Sophistic: an Orator at Play$d(2007 :$cUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)