To baldly go: a last look at Lucius and his counter-humiliation strategies

James, Paula and O'Brien, Maeve (2006). To baldly go: a last look at Lucius and his counter-humiliation strategies. In: Keulen, W.H.; Nauta, R.R. and Panayotakis, S. eds. Lectiones Scrupulosae: Essays on the Text and Interpretation of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses in Honour of Maaike Zimmerman. Ancient Narrative Series, Ancient Na (Supplement). Groningen, Netherlands: Barkhuis Publishing, pp. 234–251.

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Abstract

A wide range of readings into textual challenges within the Metamorphoses of Apuleius and how these relate to wider issues of cultural and literary thematics. The co-authored chapter focuses upon the balness of Lucius as a priest of Osiris and his earlier attempts to maintain and restore his dignity as both man and ass. The approach is both philosophical in its interpretation but keeps a sense of fun and satire about the hero's various physical and moral metamorphoses.

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