Paideia at Play: Learning and Wit in Apuleius
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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Paideia at Play: Learning and Wit in Apuleius
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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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789077922415 |
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| Publisher: | Barkhuis Publishing |
| Publication date: | 12/15/2008 |
| Series: | Ancient Narrative Supplements Series , #11 |
| Pages: | 302 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d) |
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