Apuleius'' Platonism - The Impersonation of Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Richard Fletcher is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at Ohio State University. Klappentext The first exploration of the idiosyncratic brand of Platonism in the multifarious literary corpus of Apuleius of Madauros (c.AD 120-180). Zusammenfassung Apuleius of Madauros (c.AD 120–180), known to us today for his Latin fiction, the Metamorphoses, was also a Platonic philosopher. This book is the first exploration of his idiosyncratic brand of Platonism across his multifarious literary corpus, contributing to the study of the dynamic between literature and philosophy in antiquity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Becoming Plato, voicing Platonism; 3. Universal reading and daemonic interpretation; 4. Platonism on trial and philosophy on stage; 5. Conclusion (Metamorphoses).

Product details

• Authors: Richard Fletcher
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9781107025479
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02547-9
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Latin, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE