Paideia at Play: Learning and Wit in Apuleius (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789077922415)

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.

Author: Werner Riess
ISBN-10: 9077922415
ISBN-13: 9789077922415
Publisher: Barkhuis
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2008
Pages: 302
Format: Hardcover