The Metamorphosis of Apuleius traces two millennia of changes in the tale of "Cupid and Psyche, " the major inserted tale in Lucius Apuleius's second-century Latin novel Metamorphoses (or The Golden Ass). While folklorists have tended to deprecate the tale's affiliation with the classic French fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast, " it would resurface in the horror movie, "King Kong, " an epic retelling that is in many ways actually closer to Apuleius's original Latin. The Middle Platonic philosophic-religious allegorical ...
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The Metamorphosis of Apuleius traces two millennia of changes in the tale of "Cupid and Psyche, " the major inserted tale in Lucius Apuleius's second-century Latin novel Metamorphoses (or The Golden Ass). While folklorists have tended to deprecate the tale's affiliation with the classic French fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast, " it would resurface in the horror movie, "King Kong, " an epic retelling that is in many ways actually closer to Apuleius's original Latin. The Middle Platonic philosophic-religious allegorical interpretation of "Cupid and Psyche" is used to review the courses of the two later mutations.
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VG-/VG-(Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. ) Burgundy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; white dj, color illustrated with black lettering; mylar cover; 323 pp. "The Metamorphosis of Apuleius traces two millennia of changes in the major inserted tale in the second century Metamorphoses (or Golden Ass), the only classical Latin novel to survive in a complete text. This most charming "Tale of Cupid and Psyche" was both popular in its own day and became the subject of allegorical intepretation into the Dark Ages. However, it became lost in the Middle Ages, probably in part because of the parent novel's fairly explicit eroticism and militant paganism (not counting its possible anti-Christian jibes). Resurfacing in the Renaissance from a single surviving manuscript, it again became the subject of allegorization and spawned a large number of translations and adaptations which have continued up to the present day, with C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces being only one of the more notable recent retellings."--Jacket.
Add this copy of The Metamorphosis of Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche, Beauty to cart. $77.99, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by UNKNO.
