Apuleius and Drama: The Ass on Stage Book

A Note on Texts and Translations     xiii
Abbreviations     xv
Introduction     1
Apuleius and Drama: The Purpose of This Book     1
Scholarship and Methodology     4
Comedy, Mime, and the Novel     10
Knowledge of Drama and Archaism in the Second Century     16
Introduction     16
Tragedy and Comedy in Greece     19
Watching Plays in the Roman World     21
Theatrical Archaeology in North Africa     22
Education through Studying Drama: The Sophist's Case     25
Second-Century Archaism and Apuleius     27
Conclusion     43
Drama Philosophy, and Rhetoric: Apuleius' Minor Works     45
Introduction     45
Quotations from Drama in Apuleius' De Deo Socratis     45
De Mundo and De Platone et eius Dogmate     53
Drama in the Florida     55
An Apuleian 'Translation' from Greek Comedy: Anechomenos     63
Conclusion     71
Courtroom Drama: Apuleius' Apologia     73
Introduction     73
Exordium ('Introduction') 1-3     80
Refutation of Subsidiary, Non-magical Charges 4-24     81
Refutation of 'Minor' MagicalCharges 25.5-65     87
Refutation of 'Major' Charges concerning Pudentilla's Marriage 66-101     99
Conclusion     106
The Texture of the Metamorphoses     109
Introduction     109
The Prologue     110
Comedy in Prose: Comic Elements of the Narrative Texture     115
Conclusion     127
The Drama of Aristomenes and Socrates     128
Introduction     128
Dramatic Posturing     129
What Kind of Drama?     132
Crossing the Genres     139
Metatheatre and Metafiction     140
Conclusion     141
A Parasite in a Comic Household     143
Introduction     143
Lucius' Comic Characterization: Lucius as a Parasite?     143
Milo's House: A domus comica ('Comic Household')     156
Conclusion     180
The Risus Festival: Laughing at Laughter     182
Introduction     182
Comedy and Theatrical Setting     182
Risus Festival: History or Apuleian Invention?     187
The God Risus and his Sources     188
Why 'Laughter'?     190
Forum and Theatre: The Setting of the Trial     192
The Crime: Killing the Wineskins     195
Apuleius and Aristophanes     198
Young Drunkards     202
Actor and Auctor     205
Conclusion     205
Cupid and Psyche: A Divine Comedy     208
Introduction     208
Elements of Tragedy     209
Beyond Tragedy     212
Comedy     215
Mythological Travesties in Comedy: Plautus' Amphitruo     216
Plautine Tragicomedy and Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche     219
Apuleius' dramatis personae     221
Conclusion     246
Charite: How Comedies Do Not End     249
Introduction     249
The Old Woman as a Dramatic Nurse     250
Charite's Dream     252
Feminine Suicides     255
Scaena and persona     257
Charite's Comedy     260
Charite's Tragedy     265
Conclusion     268
'Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light': Metamorphoses, Book 10     269
Introduction     269
The Inset Tales: 'Phaedra' and 'Menander'     270
The Main Narrative: 'Miles gloriosus' and 'Cooks'     295
Conclusion     305
The End: Isis: Dea ex machina?     307
Introduction     307
Tragedy     307
Comedy     310
'Why Isis?'     318
The Anteludia     324
Conclusion and Outlook     327
Conclusion     329
Bibliography     333
Index     359