Apuleius: Fragmentary Works Apulei Madaurensis Operum Deperditorum - Reliquiae

This edition of Apuleius's fragmentary works presents sixty-two items, along with a larger set of dubious items, with critical apparatus. An extensive editorial preface surveys all the works either lost or falsely attributed to Apuleius, while also detailing the principles and methods underlying this edition.

List of contents

• Praefatio


• Tabulae comparationis


• Conspectus librorum


• A. OPERA METRIS CONSCRIPTA


• B. OPERA SOLUTA ORATIONE CONSCRIPTA


• C. VALDE DUBIA VEL SPURIA

About the author

Antonio Stramaglia is Professor of Latin at the University of Bari. He is a member of Academia Europaea and other learned institutions. In 2016-17, he was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His research focuses on Greek and Latin fiction (Apuleius, papyrus fragments), the supernatural in classical literature, ancient paradoxography, 'comics' and other forms of text-image interaction in Greece and Rome, education in antiquity (with special emphasis on declamation), Roman satire (particularly Juvenal), Galen, and Terence. He has lectured extensively in various countries and languages. In 2021 he was awarded the Tartufari Prize in Classical Philology by the Accademia dei Lincei.

Aldo Corcella is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basilicata (Potenza-Matera, Italy). He took his degree at the Università di Bari in 1983 and specialized at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (1985-1987). He previously taught Italian culture at the University of Saint Andrews, and in 2008/09 he was Visiting Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. He is a specialist in ancient historiography and rhetorics.

Product details

• Authors: Antonio (Professor of Latin Stramaglia
• Assisted by: Corcella Aldo (Editor), Stramaglia Antonio (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.12.2025
• EAN: 9780198940081
• ISBN: 978-0-19-894008-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Oxford Classical Texts
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form