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Robbers and Soldiers: Criminality and Roman Army in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses [PDF]

This paper aims at discussing the relationship between ancient robbers and Roman army in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. As Apuleius' Metamorphoses has a great deal of information about banditry, deserters and ex-soldiers that can be explored in different ways,
Garraffoni, Renata
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De l’onirisme à l’ironie : les prestiges de la nuit dans l’Euphormion de Jean Barclay (1605)

Etudes Epistémè, 2016
Published in 1605 by the Franco-Scottish author John Barclay, the first part of Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon abounds in night scenes, where the eponymous character is confronted with a series of ambiguous phenomena (will-o’-the-wisps, ghosts, dreams) –
Nicolas Correard
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An I for an I: Reading Fictional Autobiography [PDF]

, 2009
The distinction between author and narrator is central to narratology, and to modern literary criticism in general. Why is it that ancient critics seem so often to ignore it, and to confuse the narrator's words with authorial autobiography?
Whitmarsh, Tim
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The sofist Apuleius of Madaura and the Memory: Construction of his wife Emilia Pudentila’s image, an African aristocrat

Studia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2012
This paper analizes the image of Emilia Pudentila, an African aristocratic, that the sofistic Apuleius makes. Besides studies power relations between aristocrats families of the Oea city.
María José HIDALGO DE LA VEGA
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Le Maghreb médiéval et l’Antiquité

Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2015
Did the mediaeval Maghreb acknowledge an Antiquity? The question may appear naive, but it is fully justified by even the most superficial familiarity with the mediaeval Maghreb.
Chafik T. Benchekroun
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Aristotle's lobster: the image in the text. [PDF]

Theory Biosci, 2021
Fürst von Lieven A, Humar M, Scholtz G.
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The Elegiac Ass: The Concept of Servitivm Amoris in Apuleius' Metamorphoses [PDF]

, 2017
Seruitium amoris, the notion of love as slavery, is a frequent theme in Roman elegy. It inverts Roman reality in representing a free Roman citizen dominated by a woman, evidently from a lower social class.
Hindermann, Judith
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The Salamander in the Furnace of the Loggia of Psyche at Villa Farnesina: Alchemy and the Hermetic Tradition in Renaissance Rome (With an Analysis of Jacopo del Sellaio’s Abegg-Stiftung Florentine Psyche Marriage Cassone Panel, as an Adaptation of Botticelli’s Primavera)

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This article examines the unexplained image of a reptilian creature in the fire of a spandrel of Raphael’s Loggia of Psyche in Villa Farnesina, Rome, from the point of view of alchemy.
Robert Paul Huber
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Gendered and Gendering Insults and Compliments in the Latin Novels

Eugesta, 2013
The chief and subsidiary narrators (generally male) in Petronius and Apuleius’ fictions voice judgments on men’s and women’s actions, words and other sounds, and gestures.
Donald Lateiner
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The Golden Ass.

thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
For some time, the debt – not merely literary – that Western culture owes to Apuleius’ Golden Ass has been acknowledged. If the Metamorphoses, unlike other classical texts, have enjoyed a certain success in the landscape of the graphic novel, it is also ...
Pietro Vesentin
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