The Human Tragicomedy: the Reception of Apuleius’ Golden Ass in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

Mateusz Stróżyński is Associate Professor in the Institute of Classical Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He is the co-editor, with J.Fiećko, of Adam Mickiewicz, Metaphysical Poems (Brill, 2023) and the author of Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World: Faces of Being and Mirrors of Intellect (Cambridge University Press, 2024). He is also founding editor of the online journal Antigone. Contributors are Nicholas Banner, Jakub Handszu, Douglas Hedley, Warren S. Smith, Mateusz Stróżyński, Łukasz Berger, Andrea Musio.

Contents



Introduction: Lucius’ Wandering into the New Millennium

 Mateusz Stróżyński



Part 1: The Sun at Midnight

1 The Ineffable and the Arcane in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

 Nicholas Banner



2 Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: a Jungian Perspective

 Jakub Handszu



3 Shame and Glory: C.S. Lewis and the Tale of Cupid and Psyche

 Douglas Hedley



Part 2: Divine Comedy

4 Humour and Satire in Book Eleven of The Golden Ass

 Warren S. Smith



5 The Divine Joke: C.S. Lewis and The Golden Ass

 Mateusz Stróżyński



Part 3: Weaving Together Different Tales

6 Lucius’ Games of Politeness

 Łukasz Berger



7 The Reception of Apuleius in Italian Theatre and Cinema

 Andrea Musio



8 Au hasard, Apuleius? The Uses of The Golden Ass in the Twenty-First Century Novel and Cinema

 Mateusz Stróżyński



Conclusion: Quiring to the Young-Eyed Cherubins

 Mateusz Stróżyński



Index