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Metamorphoses.
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ISBN: 9789069801544 906980154X 9060880595 9069801302 9069801469 906088079X 9069800055 9069800853 9069801280 9789069800851 9789069801285 9789060880593 9789069800059 9789069801308 9789060880791 Year: 2007 Volume: 10 Publisher: Groningen : Forsten,


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Apuleius and the metamorphosis of Platonism
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ISBN: 9782503554709 2503554709 Year: 2015 Volume: 10 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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This book presents a thorough re-examination of Apuleius’ Platonic philosophy, encompassing both his philosophical and literary works. Its primary concern lies in demonstrating how there is no significant gap between the Platonic philosophy of the Opuscula (De deo Socratis, De Platone et eius dogmate, De mundo) and the literary tastes of his rhetorical and most important output, such as the Apologia, the Florida, and foremost the Metamorphoses. Apuleius’ Middle-Platonism did not limit itself to technical works, but also influenced his literary interests. Up to now, Apuleius’ Platonism has been very poorly investigated. It had attracted the attention of only a few – although prominent – scholars (Festugière, Dodds, Theiler), before being taken briefly into consideration in the monographs by John Dillon (The Middleplatonists, London 1977) and Stephen Gersh (Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism. The Latin Tradition, Notre Dame 1986). Because of his multifaceted interests and brilliant style, which is reflected in his conferences, judicial orations and in the novel, Apuleius was mainly treated as a sophist. In the wake of a recent revival of interest in Greek Middle Platonism and in its predecessors (such as Philo of Alexandria or Plutarch), the rhetor of Madauros is worthy of a new examination. This book aims at considering Apuleius as a Philosophus Platonicus who, at the same time, is a Latin Sophist, showing how the two aspects are closely intertwined. Examining only one aspect would be easy, but would not do justice to Apuleius’ personality. In particular, it is necessary to insert him into a philosophical line, which runs from the first to the third century AD, thus outlining the specifics of Latin Platonism. On the other hand, it is necessary to take into account the concerns of the Second Sophistic in philosophy, though in a somewhat trivialized and less systematic way. The title of the book (Apuleius and the Metamorphoses of Platonism) indeed underlines how Apuleius’ chameleonic Platonism ‘transforms’ itself, both in his philosophical and his literary works. While challenging the current scholarly trend that overrates the philosophical presence in the Metamorphoses, this book suggests new outlooks, as well as providing a new perspective on many hypotheses previously considered as a given. In order to do this, it investigates the literary, religious and philosophical, Graeco-Roman / African milieu in which Apuleius lived from a literary, religious and philosophical point of view, while considering his influence on authors from Late Antiquity.


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Asclepius
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ISBN: 9782503584775 2503584772 Year: 2019 Volume: 143 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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Il dialogo ermetico Asclepius, composto da un anonimo madrelingua greco in uno dei primi secoli dell’era cristiana, è un’opera latina che condivide la stessa tradizione testuale degli opuscoli filosofici di Apuleio (De deo Socratis, De Platone et eius dogmate, De mundo). Essa costituisce, insieme alla silloge del Corpus Hermeticum greco, la più ampia esposizione della teosofia ermetica in nostro possesso.Nel corso dell’opera, Ermete Trismegisto rivela ad Asclepio alcuni capisaldi della dottrina ermetica come il dualismo ontologico e cosmologico che separa dio e le realtà eterne (come gli astri, i dèmoni e l’intelletto umano) dalla materia e dalle realtà transeunti (come il corpo), e lo statuto mediano dell’essere umano, sospeso tra i due poli, con il duplice compito di custodire il mondo e impegnarsi nel percorso che conduce alla contemplazione intuitiva della divinità.Questa nuova edizione critica dell’opera si basa sulla ricognizione di tutti i testimoni manoscritti oggi noti anteriori al XV sec. Di ciascuno si discute dettagliatamente la collocazione stemmatica e si offre un’ampia messe di dati di collazione, utili a costituire il testo critico qui pubblicato. A new critical edition of the foundational text of the Latin Hermetic tradition


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Witches, Isis and narrative : approaches to magic in Apuleius' "Metamorphoses"
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ISBN: 9783110205947 3110205947 128339703X 9786613397034 3110210037 9783110210033 6613397032 9781283397032 Year: 2008 Volume: 2 Publisher: Berlin New York : Walter de Gruyter,

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This is the first in-depth study of Apuleius' Metamorphoses to look at the different attitudes characters adopt towards magic as a key to deciphering the complex dynamics of the entire work. The variety of responses to magic is unveiled in the narrative as the protagonist Lucius encounters an assortment of characters, either in embedded tales or in the main plot. A contextualized approach illuminates Lucius' relatively good fortune when compared to other characters in the novel - this results from his involvement with the magic of a sorcerer's apprentice, rather than that of a real witch, and signals the possibility of eventual salvation. A careful investigation of Lucius' attitude towards Isis in book 11 and his relationship with the witch-slave girl Photis earlier on suggests that the novel's final book may be read as a second "Metamorphoses", consciously rewritten from a positive perspective. Last but not least, the book also breaks new ground by examining the narrative structure of the Metamorphoses against the background of the typical plotline found in the ideal romance. The comparison shows how Apuleius both follows and alters this plot, exploiting the genre to his own specific ends, in keeping with his central theme of metamorphosis.


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Apuleius' platonism
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ISBN: 9781107025479 9781139179010 9781107659117 1107025478 1107659116 1139179012 1139898604 1139902598 113990454X 1139906488 1139910345 1139914278 1139918192 1139922084 1322066175 Year: 2014 Volume: *116 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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.


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Apuleio : storia del testo e interpretazioni
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ISBN: 8876944451 Year: 2000 Volume: 11 Publisher: Alessandria Edizioni dell'Orso

Apuleius philosophus Platonicus: : Untersuchungen zur Apologie (De magia) und zu De mundo
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ISBN: 3110036789 3110843218 9783110843217 9783110036787 Year: 1971 Volume: Bd. 10 Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter,

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