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The fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass: a study in transmission and reception

Julia Haig Gaisser
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • Preface (page xi)
  • Chapter 1 Apuleius: A Celebrity and His Image (page 1)
  • Chapter 2 Exemplary Behavior: The Golden Ass from Late Antiquity to the Prehumanists (page 40)
  • Chapter 3 A Mixed Reception: Interpreting and Illuminating the Golden Ass in the Fourteenth Century (page 76)
  • Chapter 4 Making an Impression: From Florence to Rome and from Manuscript to Print (page 129)
  • Chapter 5 Telling Tales: The Golden Ass in Ferrara and Mantua (page 173)
  • Chapter 6 Apuleius Redux: Filippo Beroaldo Comments on the Golden Ass (page 197)
  • Chapter 7 Speaking in Tongues: Translations of the Golden Ass (page 243)
  • Conclusion The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass (page 296)
  • Appendix 1 Ancient Readers of Apuleius (ca. 350 to ca. 550 AD) (page 300)
  • Appendix 2 Manuscripts of Apuleius' Metamorphoses (page 302)
  • Appendix 3 Extant Manuscripts of the Metamorphoses Written before 1400 (page 309)
  • Appendix 4 The Florentine Connection (page 311)
  • Appendix 5 Adlington and His Sources for Met. 11.1 (page 315)
  • Bibliography (page 319)
  • Index of Manuscripts (page 355)
  • General Index (page 357)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
TAL 18.2 (Autumn 2009): 236-239 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20789075
PHO 62. 3/4 (Fall-Winter 2008): 363-378 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25651737
CR 59.2 (Oct. 2009): 482-485 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40600693
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Published: c2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780691131368 (hardcover)
  • 9781400849833 (ebook)
Subject
  • European: Ancient to 400 C.E.
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