Synopses & Reviews
This anthology of articles on the Roman novels of Petronuis and Apuleius makes available some of the most useful and important articles published in German and Italian as well as English over the last thirty years. The introduction, by the editor, provides a general assessment of all scholarly work written about the texts from the 1900s to the 1990s, setting the papers usefully in context.
Table of Contents
Harrison:
Twentieth-century scholarship on the Roman NovelZeitlin: Petronius as Paradox: Anarchy and Artistic Integrity
Beck: Some Observations on the Narrative Technique of Petronius
Astbury: Petronius, P. Oxy. 3010, and Menippean Satire
Rosati: Trimalchio on the Stage
Petersmann: Environment, Linguistic Situation and Levels of Style in Petronius
Barchiesi: Traces of Greek Novels and the Roman Novels
Wlosok: On the Unity of Apuleius
Tatum: The Tales in Apuleius Metamorphoses
Smith: The Narrative Voice in Apuleius Metamorphoses
Mason: Fabula Graecanica: Apuleius and his Greek Sources
Van der Paardt: The Unmasked T: Apuleius
Millar: The World of the Golden Ass
De Filippo: Curiositas and the Platonism of Apuleius Golden Ass
Finkelpearl: Psyche, Aeneas and an Ass: Apuleius