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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Paideia at play : learning and wit in Apuleius / / edited by Werner Riess"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Groningen : , : Barkhuis Publishing : , : Groningen University Library, , 2008"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"94-91431-46-3"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (326 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Ancient narrative. Supplementum, , 1568-3540 ; ; 11"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Second Sophistic movement"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Education, Ancient"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","\"This volume presents a collection of revised versions of papers originally read at the international conference \"Apuleius and the second sophistic : an orator at play,\" which took place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on March 23-25, 2007\"--P. [vii]."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-280) and indexes."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"The sophist at play in court : Apuleius' Apology and his literary career / Stephen J. Harrison -- Legal strategy and learned display in Apuleius' Apology / James B. Rives -- Apuleius Socrates Africanus? : Apuleius' defensive play / Werner Reiss -- Homer in Apuleius' Apology / Vincent Hunink -- The \"riches\" of poverty : literary games with poetry in Apuleius' Luas Paupertatis (Apology 18) / Thomas D. McCreight -- Eloquentia ludens : Apuleius' Apology and the cheerful side of standing trial / Stefan Tilg -- Centaus solis fabulis : a symposiastic reading of Apuleius' novel / Maaike Zimmerman -- A festival of laughter : Lucius, Milo and Isis playing the game of Hospitium / Robert E. Vander Poppen -- Social commentary in the Metamorphoses : Apuleius' play with satire / Elizabeth M. Greene -- Playing with elegy : tales of lovers in books 1 and 2 of Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Amanda G. Mathis -- Vigilans somniabar : some narrative uses of dreams in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / David P.C. Carlisle -- Apuleian Ecphraseis : depiction at play / Niall W. Slater."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","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 "]
[{"$nulls":4},"into this framework, and created a distinctively latin expression of paidea, focusing on the elements of playfulness"]