Paideia at play : learning and wit in Apuleius

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Classical Antiquity Studies Classical Studies and Philology Classical Philosophy and Thought

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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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2007The Greek and the Roman Novel. Parallel Readings 2007Seeing Tongues, Hearing Scripts: Orality and Representation in the Ancient Novel 2005Metaphor and the ancient novel

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