TY - BOOK ID - 86208976 TI - The afterlife of Apuleius AU - Bistagne, F. AU - Bistagne, Florence AU - Boidin, Carole AU - Mouren, Raphaële PY - 2021 SN - 1905670958 9781905670956 9781905670963 1905670966 PB - London DB - UniCat KW - Apuleius KW - Apuleius. KW - Apuleius Barbarus KW - Apulejus, Lucius KW - Lucio Apuleio KW - Apuleyo de Madauros KW - Apulien KW - Apulée KW - Apuleius Madaurensis KW - Appuleius, Lucius KW - Apuleius, Lucius KW - Apuleio KW - Apuleyo, Lucio KW - Abūliyūs, Lūkiyūs KW - Apuleius, KW - Apuleius Platonicus Madaurensis KW - Apuleu KW - אפוליאוס KW - לוקיוס, אפוליאוס KW - ابوليوس KW - Appuleius, KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Influence KW - Appuleius KW - Classical history / classical civilisation KW - latin KW - platonist KW - roman empire KW - athens KW - asia minor KW - cults KW - magic KW - golden ass UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86208976 AB - Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection of essays is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, linguistics and philology, within a wide geographical scope. The volume gathers the proceedings of an international conference held in March 2016 at the Warburg Institute in London, in association with the Institute of Classical Studies. It includes both diachronic overviews and specific case-studies. A first series of papers focuses on The Golden Ass and its historical and geographical diffusion, from High Medieval Europe to early modern Mexico. The oriental connections of the book are also taken into account. The second part of the book examines the textual and visual destiny of Psyche’s story from the Apuleian fabula to allegorical retellings, in poetical or philosophical books and on stage. As the third series of essays indicates, the fortunes of the book led many ancient and early modern writers and translators to use it as a canonical model for reflections about the status of fiction. It also became, mostly around the beginning of the fifteenth century, a major linguistic and stylistic reference for lexicographers and neo-Latin writers : the last papers of the book deal with Renaissance polemics about ‘Apuleianism’ and the role of editors and commentators. ER -