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001 2013037708
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008 131223s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013037708
020 $a9781107025479 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aB536.A34$bF54 2014
082 00 $a873/.01$223
084 $aLCO003000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aFletcher, Richard,$d1979-
245 10 $aApuleius' platonism :$bthe impersonation of philosophy /$cRichard Fletcher.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $axi, 319 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aCambridge classical studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 295-310) and index.
520 $a"Apuleius of Madauros, writing in the latter half of the second century CE in Roman North Africa, is best known to us today for his Latin fiction, the Metamorphoses aka The Golden Ass, about a man who turned into a donkey and back again. However, he was also a Platonic philosopher, who, even though many of his writings are lost, wrote a range of rhetorical and philosophical works which survive to this day. This book examines these works to reveal how Apuleius' Platonism is a result of his 'impersonation of philosophy', that is, a rhetorically powerful methodological tool that allows him to 'speak' on behalf of Plato and his philosophy. This book is the first exploration of the full scope of his idiosyncratic brand of Platonism across his multifarious literary corpus and is a major contribution to the study of the dynamic between literature and philosophy in antiquity and beyond"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Becoming Plato, voicing Platonism; 3. Universal reading and daemonic interpretation; 4. Platonism on trial and philosophy on stage; 5. Conclusion (Metamorphoses).
600 00 $aApuleius.
650 7 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval.$2bisacsh