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Golden Ass
Apuleius
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Description for Golden Ass
Paperback. Orients the reader in matters of authorship, narration, genre, religion, structure and style. This title includes a browsable index, bibliography, and maps. Translator(s): Relihan, Joel C. Num Pages: 328 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
Relihan uses alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, to create a sparkling, luxurious, and readable translation that reproduces something of the linguistic and comic effects of the original Latin. The general Introduction is a masterpiece of clarity, orienting the reader in matters of authorship, narration, genre, religion, structure and style. A generous and browsable index, select bibliography, and maps are included.
Relihan uses alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, to create a sparkling, luxurious, and readable translation that reproduces something of the linguistic and comic effects of the original Latin. The general Introduction is a masterpiece of clarity, orienting the reader in matters of authorship, narration, genre, religion, structure and style. A generous and browsable index, select bibliography, and maps are included.
Product Details
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
277
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9780872208872
SKU
V9780872208872
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Ref
99-18
About Apuleius
Joel C. Relihan is Professor of Classics, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.
Reviews for Golden Ass
Relihan is an American Euphues. I like everything about this edition from the title page to the index. The translation is magnificent.
Stanley Lombardo, Department of Classics, University of Kansas This is easily the best English translation of The Golden Ass . I find that undergraduates with little or no knowledge of classical literature or the Greco-Roman world can readily read and enjoy it
as accessible as Graves or Ruden, but much more true to Apuleius's text and sensibility. Relihan's introduction is a great distillation of scholarly commentary
superb in all aspects.
Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast I've been teaching Apuleius' The Golden Ass off and on for thirty years, first at Dartmouth College and now at Carleton College. Our problem
that shared by all of us who treasure this great romance or novel from late antiquity
has always been translations of The Golden Ass . There's nothing terribly wrong with previous translations; but none captures the wit and candor of Apuleius until now. This term, I used the new translation by Joel Relihan in a Carleton course and the results were beyond my very lofty expectations: students, for the first time, had something close to direct access to Apuleius' prose and they responded with an enthusiasm I've never encountered before. Relihan has given Apuleius a voice in English as never before, and my students and I laughed out loud, often, in reading passages aloud, and we felt the power of Apuleius' wit and open vulgarity. Relihan's translation will be one that many of us will use again and again in the years and decades ahead.
-Robert A. Oden, Jr., Professor of Religion, President of Carleton College
Stanley Lombardo, Department of Classics, University of Kansas This is easily the best English translation of The Golden Ass . I find that undergraduates with little or no knowledge of classical literature or the Greco-Roman world can readily read and enjoy it
as accessible as Graves or Ruden, but much more true to Apuleius's text and sensibility. Relihan's introduction is a great distillation of scholarly commentary
superb in all aspects.
Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast I've been teaching Apuleius' The Golden Ass off and on for thirty years, first at Dartmouth College and now at Carleton College. Our problem
that shared by all of us who treasure this great romance or novel from late antiquity
has always been translations of The Golden Ass . There's nothing terribly wrong with previous translations; but none captures the wit and candor of Apuleius until now. This term, I used the new translation by Joel Relihan in a Carleton course and the results were beyond my very lofty expectations: students, for the first time, had something close to direct access to Apuleius' prose and they responded with an enthusiasm I've never encountered before. Relihan has given Apuleius a voice in English as never before, and my students and I laughed out loud, often, in reading passages aloud, and we felt the power of Apuleius' wit and open vulgarity. Relihan's translation will be one that many of us will use again and again in the years and decades ahead.
-Robert A. Oden, Jr., Professor of Religion, President of Carleton College