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New Work by Apuleius

By Stover, Justin A

New Work by Apuleius

By Stover, Justin A

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A New Work by Apuleius presents what may be the first lengthy Latin text from antiquity to be published in almost a century. Marshalling evidence from the text, intertextual relationships, stylistics, stemmatics, codicology, and philosophy, it lays out a compelling case for attributing thiswork--a summary of 14 of Plato's dialogues--to the second-century polymath Apuleius, author of the Apology, the Florida, the Metamorphoses, and the De Platone, an introduction to Plato for Latin readers. First discovered by Raymond Klibansky, the text is transmitted in one important, but neglected, manuscript of Apuleius' philosophical works. In this volume, Stover reveals that this new work is in fact the lost third book of the De Platone, and provides the key to understanding Apuleius' use andinterpretation of Plato. The volume demonstrates that the new work is one of the only extant examples of scholastic ephemera from antiquity, allowing us to see how Apuleius shaped his notes from reading Plato into an independent treatise. Situated between the Latin and Greek worlds as a Latinsummary of a Greek text, the new work offers a fascinating insight into the practice of translation in the Latin world, the scholarly methods of antiquity, the development of Middle Platonism, and sheds new light on an under-appreciated facet of a celebrated author.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
236
Release Date:
2016-02-17
Publication Date:
2016-02-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
019873574X
ISBN13:
9780198735748
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
433 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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