This book examines the comic and philosophical aspects of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, the ancient Roman novel also known as The Golden Ass. The tales that comprise the novel, long known for their bawdiness and wit, describe the adventures of Lucius, a man who is transformed into an…
In the troubled period of the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Principate, three gods of eastern origin--the Phrygian Cybele and the Egyptian Isis and Serapis--had specific cult places at Rome, and they seem to enliven the religious, intellectual, and even political …
In the troubled period of the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Principate, three gods of eastern origin--the Phrygian Cybele and the Egyptian Isis and Serapis--had specific cult places at Rome, and they seem to enliven the religious, intellectual, and even political …