An edition of The metamorphosis of Apuleius (2002)

The metamorphosis of Apuleius

Cupid and Psyche, Beauty and the beast, King Kong

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An edition of The metamorphosis of Apuleius (2002)

The metamorphosis of Apuleius

Cupid and Psyche, Beauty and the beast, King Kong

"The Metamorphosis of Apuleius traces two millennia of changes in the major inserted tale in the second century Metamorphoses (or Golden Ass), the only classical Latin novel to survive in a complete text. This most charming "Tale of Cupid and Psyche" was both popular in its own day and became the subject of allegorical intepretation into the Dark Ages.

However, it became lost in the Middle Ages, probably in part because of the parent novel's fairly explicit eroticism and militant paganism (not counting its possible anti-Christian jibes). Resurfacing in the Renaissance from a single surviving manuscript, it again became the subject of allegorization and spawned a large number of translations and adaptations which have continued up to the present day, with C. S.

Lewis's Till We Have Faces being only one of the more notable recent retellings."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
323

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The metamorphosis of Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche, Beauty and the beast, King Kong
2002, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Associated University Presses
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-319) and index.

Published in
Madison [N.J.], London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809/.915
Library of Congress
PA6217 .A25 2002, PA6217.A25 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
323 p. ;
Number of pages
323

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3949567M
ISBN 10
0838639232
LCCN
2001040670
OCLC/WorldCat
47717935
Library Thing
2910721
Goodreads
1306808

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