The Protean ass
Subtitle: the Metamorphoses of Apuleius from antiquity to the Renaissance
By: Robert H. F. Carver.
Series: Oxford classical monographs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 545
ISBN-13: 9780199217861
Subjects: Apuleius; Apuleius -- Appreciation; Mythology, Classical, in literature; Metamorphosis in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-509) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The metamorphoses of Apuleius : from antiquity to the early Middle Ages; title: Apuleius in the High Middle Ages; title: Asinus redivivus : the recovery of the Golden Ass; title: The inky ass : Apuleius in the age of print (1469-1500); title: The antiquarian ass : Apuleius and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499); title: The academical ass : Apuleius and the northern Renaissance; title: The Golden Asse of William Adlington (1566); title: After Adlington : Apuleius in England (1566-1660); title: The Arcadian ass : Sir Philip Sidney and Apuleius; title: Psyche's daughter : pleasure and the Faerie Queene; title: Shakespeare's Bottom and Apuleius' Ass.