Antonine Literature [Hardcover]

This volume gathers together for the first time essays on the intellectual and literary world of both the Greek and Latin Antonines. The contributors provide a broad range of topics including Plutarch'sLives(C.B.R. Pelling), Lucian'sPrologues(H.-G. Nesselrath), Aristides'Hymns(D.A. Russell), Apuleius'sCupid and Psyche(E.J. Kenney), Greek poetry of the period (E.L. Bowie), the definition of the Second Sophistic (G. Anderson), and the influence of Plato'sPhaedrus(M.B. Trapp). Russell also provides an introductory essay addressing the relationship between the two literary languages, and a full bibliography and table of dates.

The papers are scholarly but lively and almost always original....The student and the scholar will learn more of Antonine literature and be stimulated to think harder and perhaps even to read more widely in the literature itself by this collection. --Bryn Mawr Classical Review