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The Protean Ass: The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance - Oxford Classical Monographs Carver, Robert H. F. (Lecturer in Renaissance Literature, Department of English Studies, University of Durham)
The Protean Ass: The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance - Oxford Classical Monographs
Carver, Robert H. F. (Lecturer in Renaissance Literature, Department of English Studies, University of Durham)
A full account of the reception of the second-century prose fiction The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses) of Apuleius, which has intrigued readers as diverse as St Augustine, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Robert H. F. Carver traces readers' responses to the novel from the third to the seventeenth centuries.
562 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 6, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199217861 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 568 |
| Dimensions | 162 × 240 × 36 mm · 1 kg |
| Language | English |