Apuleius and Antonine Rome effectively illustrates how socio-cultural history can be recovered from works of literature.

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

[List of Figures]

1. Law, magic and culture in Apuleius’ Apology

2. Contending with conversion: reflections on the re-formation of Lucius the Ass

3. Romanitas and the Roman family: the evidence of Apuleius’ Apology

4. Animalising the slave: the truth of fiction

5. Fictive families: family and household in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

6. Sacrificing the family: Christian martyrs and their kin

7. Apuleius and Carthage

8. Appearing for the defence: Apuleius on display

9. Apuleius and the sub-Saharan slave trade

10. Apuleius and Jesus

11. Lucius and Isis: history in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

12. Apuleius and adultery in the age of the Antonines

Appendix

Bibliographical References

Index

Keith Bradley is the Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and an adjunct professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.