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Book SynopsisApuleius and Antonine Rome effectively illustrates how socio-cultural history can be recovered from works of literature.
Trade Review'This is a great book by a major Roman social historian that vastly enriches a reading of Apuleius...One of the great joys of this book is Bradley's masterful ability to evoke the sights, sounds, colours, and striking cultural mixtures that constituted this complex world, pieced together with deceptive ease.' -- Ellen Finkelpearl Phoenix vol 67:1-2:2013
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations [List of Figures] 1. Law, magic and culture in Apuleius' Apology 2. Contending with conversion: reflections on the re-formation of Lucius the Ass 3. Romanitas and the Roman family: the evidence of Apuleius' Apology 4. Animalising the slave: the truth of fiction 5. Fictive families: family and household in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 6. Sacrificing the family: Christian martyrs and their kin 7. Apuleius and Carthage 8. Appearing for the defence: Apuleius on display 9. Apuleius and the sub-Saharan slave trade 10. Apuleius and Jesus 11. Lucius and Isis: history in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 12. Apuleius and adultery in the age of the Antonines Appendix Bibliographical References Index
