{"product_id":"paideia-at-play-werner-riess-9789077922415","title":"Paideia at Play: Learning and Wit in Apuleius","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Werner Riess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9077922415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789077922415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Barkhuis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Werner Riess","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48241709482239,"sku":"9789077922415","price":124.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9d518969-9769-4431-946d-4df093ec4f17.jpg?v=1772655586","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/paideia-at-play-werner-riess-9789077922415","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}