After more than three decades since the publication of Gwyn Griffiths' 1975 commentary, which concentrated mainly on Egyptological aspects and represents an outdated, positivistic approach to the literary evidence on Isis, this new commentary presents a new and thorough assessment of Apuleius' Isis
Apuleius: Metamorphoses: Book X
โ Scribed by Apuleius; Maaike Zimmerman
- Publisher
- Egbert Forsten
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 489
- Series
- Groningen commentaries on Apuleius
- Category
- Library
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