Groningen Commentary on Apuleius'<i> Metamorphoses</i> (9 Volume SET)
1 primary work • 5 total works
Book 9
Apuleius Madaurensis, Metamorphoses, Book IX
by B.L. Hijmans Jr., R.Th. van der Paardt, V. Schmidt, B. Wesseling, and M Zimmerman
Published 1 January 1995
Apuleius Madaurensis Metamorphoses, Book VIII
by B.L. Hijmans Jr., R.Th. van der Paardt, V. Schmidt, C.B.J. Settels, B. Wesseling, and R.E.H. Westendorp Boerma
Published 1 July 1985
Apuleius Madaurensis Metamorphoses, Book XI, The Isis Book
by W.H. Keulen and Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser
Published 17 December 2014
After more than three decades since the publication of Gwyn Griffiths’ 1975 commentary, which concentrated mainly on Egyptological aspects and represents an outdated, positivistic approach to the literary evidence on Isis, this new commentary presents a new and thorough assessment of Apuleius’ Isis Book, elucidating and interpreting the narrative in its literary, religious, archaeological and cultural context. Reflecting the recent innovative approach to the interaction of literature and religion (Literarisierung von Religion) and the important developments in the research on the Second Sophistic (e.g. ‘Self-fashioning’; Cultural Identity), the volume offers a new, detailed interpretation of the Isis Book in the easy-to-use form of a fully-fledged commentary, including Latin Text and monographic Introduction.