The Golden Art of Apuleius

B. C. Dietrich

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The Golden Art of Apuleius

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B. C. Dietrich

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A brief glance into almost any modern history of Latin literature will show that the age of Silver Latin came to an end with Suetonius, whose death marked the beginning of two centuries during which Roman letters trickled away to nothing in a wind-swept desert. A sad fate for a great literature at such an early date, for Suetonius still belonged to the first quarter of the second century a.d. Fortunately we may beg to differ from our historians: there was yet life in the old body even after Suetonius.

Type: Research Article
Information: Greece & Rome , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , October 1966 , pp. 189 - 206

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500015527 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Classical Association 1966

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^{page 189 note 1} See Duff, J. Wight, A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age (London, 1935)Google Scholar— I have not yet had access to the second edition of this work, 638, where Ph. Chasles, , Études sur le seizième siècle (Paris, 1876) is cited.Google Scholar

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^{page 190 note 1} Juv. vii. 148.

^{page 191 note 1} Norden, E., Die antike Kunstprosa, ii (Leipzig and Berlin, 1918), 588 ff.Google Scholar

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^{page 192 note 2} Eloquentiae Encomium, ed. K. Hartfelder (1523), 29.

^{page 192 note 3} In the preface to his ed. of Hilarius, , De Trinitate etc. (Basle, 1523), 613.Google Scholar

^{page 192 note 4} See, e.g., Ap. Apol. 24; cf. Norden, , op. cit. 592.Google Scholar

^{page 193 note 1} Apol. 98.

^{page 193 note 2} e.g. de gubern. mundi vii. 16.

^{page 193 note 3} Cf. Norden, , op. cit. 593Google Scholar, who cites Watson, E. W., The Style and Language of St. Cyprian (Oxford, 1896), 189 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 193 note 4} In his article on Hegesias in the Oxford Classical Dictionary.

^{page 195 note 1} Cf. Augustine, 's judgement in Civ. Dei iii. 19.Google Scholar

^{page 195 note 2} i. 33.

^{page 195 note 3} i. 13.

^{page 195 note 4} De pud. 1.

^{page 195 note 5} Op. cit., 601.

^{page 195 note 6} Met. 9. 14.

^{page 196 note 1} Apol. 24.

^{page 196 note 2} Apol. 72.

^{page 196 note 3} Flor. 18.

^{page 196 note 4} Cf. Apol. 55.

^{page 196 note 5} Met. 11. 28 f.

^{page 197 note 1} Apol. 55.

^{page 197 note 2} Flor. 16.

^{page 197 note 3} Flor. 12.

^{page 197 note 4} e.g. Flor. 15; 16.

^{page 197 note 5} Flor. 16.

^{page 198 note 1} Cf. Aug. ep. 138. 19.

^{page 198 note 2} Apol. 85.

^{page 198 note 3} Apol. 87.

^{page 198 note 4} Apol. 89.

^{page 198 note 5} e.g. Apol. 92.

^{page 199 note 1} Apol. 6.

^{page 199 note 2} Apol. 33.

^{page 199 note 3} Apol. 13.

^{page 200 note 1} Apol. 48.

^{page 200 note 2} Apol. 53.

^{page 200 note 3} Apol. 4.

^{page 200 note 4} Apol. 6.

^{page 201 note 1} Schwabe, L., Teuffel's History of Roman Literature, transl. by Warr, G. C. W., (London, 1900), ii. 238.Google Scholar

^{page 201 note 2} This and other translations from the Golden Ass are taken from Sir S. Gaselee's adaptation of the version by Adlington in the Loeb series.

^{page 201 note 3} Apol. 5.

^{page 201 note 4} Apol. 4.

^{page 202 note 1} Met. 1. 1.

^{page 202 note 2} On the best MS. for all three works, the Laurentianus 68. 2.

^{page 202 note 3} Cf. Met. 1. 1.

^{page 202 note 4} The last sentence in Apol. 33 most probably refers to quite another work and not to Met. 2. 17 as ProfTodd, F. A. maintains in Some Ancient Novels (London, 1940), 108 and n. 1.Google Scholar

^{page 202 note 5} Lact. Inst. 5, 3, 7; Aug. ep. 2, 426 c (Gaume).

^{page 202 note 6} Ep. 2. 633 a (Gaume).

^{page 203 note 1} Cited by Todd, , op. cit. 140.Google Scholar

^{page 203 note 2} Marius the Epicurean i, ch. 6.

^{page 203 note 3} Met. 1. 1.

^{page 204 note 1} Met. 1. 1.

^{page 204 note 2} Ibid. 9. 22–29.

^{page 204 note 3} 111 f

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