Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

by Evelyn Adkins

In ancient Rome, where literacy was limited and speech was the main medium used to communicate status and identity face-to-face in daily life, an education in rhetoric was a valuable form of cultural capital and a key signifier of elite male identity. To lose the ability to speak would have caused one to be viewed as no longer elite, no longer a man, and perhaps even no longer human. We see such a fantasy horror story played out in the Metamorphoses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472133055
• ISBN13: 9780472133055
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"