Apuleius on the Cosmos
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 January 2026
- ISBN 9780198896340
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages282 pages
- Size 18x156x234 mm
- Weight 577 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 663
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Short description:
The first English translation of Apuleius' De Mundo, itself a Latin version of a Greek work ascribed to Aristotle, an overview of contemporary thinking on the whole cosmos. The studies included show how this relatively neglected text makes a significant contribution to our understanding of philosophical debate in the second century CE.
MoreLong description:
Apuleius' De Mundo ('On the Cosmos') has never been published in English translation. One reason for this may be that it has itself been viewed as a mere translation of a work that survives in the Aristotelian corpus, the Peri Kosmou (traditionally, but confusingly in this context, referred to as the De Mundo). But greater sensitivity both to the ideological implications of 'translation' (no translation is ever a 'mere' translation) and to the nuanced philosophical debates of the second century CE ought already to suggest that the work will have a lot to teach us—and all the more just because we have the Greek text it is working with.
This volume offers the first English translation of the De Mundo, which it presents in parallel with a new English translation of the Aristotelian Peri Kosmou by the same team, so that even readers without Latin or Greek can get a keen sense of how the two works relate—and how substantially they diverge. It is accompanied by a series of ten new scholarly studies introducing the work and setting out a broad range of approaches to its study. Together they make a powerful case that the De Mundo is deeply informed by Apuleius' Platonism, especially a view of providence which differs substantially from that of the Peri Kosmou, and that it is an important text for understanding philosophical debate in the second century CE.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Note to the reader
I: Introduction
Apuleius on the Cosmos
The Textual Transmission of Apuleius' De Mundo: A Survey of the Manuscript Tradition
II: Translations
The Aristotelian Peri Kosmou
Apuleius, De Mundo
III: Studies
The Stylistic Ambition of Apuleius' De Mundo: A Reappraisal
Reading De Mundo: Didactic, Polemic, Appropriation
Stoicism in Apuleius' Rendering of Ps.-Aristotle, Peri Kosmou
Causal Efficacy Through Intermediary Power in Apuleius' De Mundo
A Second-Century Debate on the Metaphysics of Species
Basilides of Alexandria on the Cosmos and Providence: Reassessing the Aristotelianizing Portrait of the Refutation of All Heresies
Translation as Philosophical Exercise: Apuleius' Latin Additions to Greek Theology
Integrating Meteorology and Theology in De Mundo: Meteorology, Concordia, and Cosmic Order
The 'View from Above' in Apuleius' De Mundo: Contemplative Exercise and Pedagogy
IV: Back matter
References
Index locorum
Index rerum
