Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass - A Study in Transmission and Reception

Zusatztext "This valuable book provides a fascinating perspective for comparativists on the nature of early modern exegesis. More importantly, it offers an invigorating re-evaluation of an enigmatic author whom many Latinists see only in the context of the time in which he lived--a context which has been constructed and constrained by the myopias of early-twentieth-century classical scholarship." ---Andrew Laird, European Legacy Informationen zum Autor Julia Haig Gaisser is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Catullus! Catullus in English! Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned Men ! and Catullus and His Renaissance Readers . Klappentext "The Golden Ass" tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic. This book follows Apuleius' tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century! tracing its journey from roll to codex in fourth-century Rome! into the medieval library of Monte Cassino! into the hands of Italian humanists! into print! and! finally! over the Alps. Zusammenfassung "The Golden Ass" tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic. This book follows Apuleius' tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century, tracing its journey from roll to codex in fourth-century Rome, into the medieval library of Monte Cassino, into the hands of Italian humanists, into print, and, finally, over the Alps.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Gaisser, Julia Haig Gaisser, Gaisser Julia Haig
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2008
• EAN: 9780691131368
• ISBN: 978-0-691-13136-8
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Martin Classical Lectures; Martin Classical Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval