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Paideia at Play
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Paidea, the yearning for, and display of knowledge, reached its' height as a cultural concept in the works of the Second Sophistic, an elite literary and philosophical movement seeking to ape the style and achievements of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. A crucial element in the display of paidea was an ability to mix the witty and playful with the serious and instructive. The Second Sophistic is known as a Greek phenomenon, but these essays ask how the Latin author Apuleius fitted into this framework, and created a distinctively latin expression of paidea, focusing on the elements of playfulness at its heart.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: The Apology
- The Sophist at Play in Court: Apuleiusā Apology and His Literary Career
- Legal Strategy and Learned Display in Apuleiusā A
- Apuleius Socrates Africanus? Apuleiusā Defensive Play
- Homer in Apuleiusā Apology
- The āRichesā of Poverty: Literary Games with Poetry in Apuleiusā Laus Paupertatis (Apology 18)
- Eloquentia ludens ā Apuleiusā Apology and the Cheerful Side of Standing Trial
- Part II: The Metamorphoses
- Cenatus solis fabulis? A Symposiastic Reading of Apuleiusā Novel
- A Festival of Laughter: Lucius, Milo, and Isis Playing the Game of Hospitium
- Social Commentary in the Metamorphoses: Apuleiusā Play with Satire
- Playing with Elegy: Tales of Lovers in Books 1 and 2 of Apuleiusā Metamorphoses
- Vigilans somniabar: Some Narrative Uses of Dreams in Apuleiusā Metamorphoses
- Apuleian Ecphraseis: Depiction at Play
- Abstracts
- List of Contributors
- Bibliography
- Indices