| Paideia at Play: Learning and Wit in Apuleius Contributor(s): Riess, Werner (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9077922415 ISBN-13: 9789077922415 Publisher: Barkhuis OUR PRICE: $122.76 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General |
| LCCN: 2008464902 |
| Series: Ancient Narrative Supplements |
| Physical Information: 302 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |