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Benson Index More Information Index A Babylonian Story (Iamblichus), 136 inserted tales in, 137 A Memorable Crime (Met. 8.22), 156, 159–163 reader as spectator, 241 brevity and imprecision of the narrative, 162 Anabasis (Arrian), 55 connections with Cupid and Psyche, 162–163 Ancient Novels punishment of the slave, 161 and rites of passage, 124 symbolism of the slave’s bones, 174 as cure for impotence, 254 Acousmatic voice and Mystery Cults, 5 authority of, 57 audience of, 24 meaning of, 16, 29 biographies of the novelists, 17 stimulates curiosity, 60 survival of, 136 Adlington, William, 32, 36 Anderson, Hans Christian, 84 Adultery tales, 86, 160 Ando, Clifford, 11–12 Aelius Aristides, 193, 215, 237 Andromeda, 131 Aeneid (Virgil), 57, 174, 211, 219, 255 Animals allusions to in Cupid and Psyche, 132 ants, 155, 163 Creusa, 197 bears, 79, 155, 158, 178, 250 decapitations in, 152 Cupid as a snake, 110 Juturna aids Turnus, 116 donkey, 80 Laocoön, 110 speech of, 81–82 Trojan Horse, 79 fables about, 80 Aeschylus, 154 flies, 161 Aesculapius, 73 snakes, 155, 159, 207 Africa wolves, 159 Carthage, 18, 24, 73 Annas, Julia, 93 Cyrene, 35 Antoninus Liberalis, 152, 160 Egypt, 35 Apollo, 36, 47, 57, 131 Madauros, 17, 53 oracle at Didyma, 131 Oea, 17 Apollonius of Tyana, 7, 79, 256 Punic language, 17 Apology (Apuleius), 1, 3, 5, 10, 17, 50, 53, 88, Sabratha, 17 226, 255 Zliten amphitheater mosaic, 152 apostrophe to Pudentilla’s womb, 153 Alcibiades, 107, 236 Apuleius as initiate, 228 Alexander Romance, 22, 260 excerpts in, 144 An Ephesian Tale (Xenophon of Ephesus), 17 Greek in, 245 epilogue to, 232 mirrors in, 75 inserted tales in, 137 Pythagoras, 179 oracles in, 131 supreme god, 235 situation of narration, 248 surveillance and morality, 73–75, 78 An Ethiopian Story (Heliodorus), 15, 62, 130 theurgy, 203 allegorical interpretation by Philip the unreliability of the senses, 176 Philospher, 124 voces magicae, 246 289 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47555-6 — Apuleius' Invisible Ass Geoffrey C. Benson Index More Information 290 Index Apuleius Bierl, Anton, 124 and the cult of Mithras, 247 Bloom, Harold, 240 as author, 16, 37 Body as celebrity, 16, 19, 50, 72–73, 74–76 as metaphor, 22, 151, 165–167, 180 as literary artist, 240 as temple, 218 as magician, 10, 17, 50–51, 243 growth and change of, 149 as North African, 17, 35, 53 of Isis, 149 as Platonic philosopher, 3–5, 12, 16, 76 of Photis, 149 as priest of Africa Proconsularis, 18 of slaves at the mill, 149 as religious philosopher, 24, 239 Bolin, Liu, 9 as sophist, 14, 19 Book 11, 5–6, 22–25 as translator/daemonic intermediary of abstinence theme in, 66, 176–180, 223 Plato, 48 anteludia (Met. 11.8), 198–200 biography of, 16–18 Platonic interpretation, 199 demonology of, 42–43 theatricality of, 199 friends of, 73 climactic structure of, 187, 200, 224–225 gens Apuleia, 53 December 12, 219 knowledge of languages, 35, 210 epilogue to, 188, 219, 231 knowledge of the other ancient novels, 130 first initiation (Met. 11.23), 59, 177, 204, Latin stylist, 1 209–216 possible residence in Ostia, 17, 246 inadequacy of language, 245–246 priesthood of, 73 Lucius prays to the moon (Met. 11.2), 67, 190 social background of, 156 Lucius sees the moon (Met. 11.1), 188–189 travels of, 1, 17, 73, 131 mirrors in, 196 Ares, 7 Olympian stola (Met. 11.24), 216 Aristippus, 35 parade for Isis (Met. 11.9–12), 200–209 Aristomenes, 93, 156, 191, 249, 250, 252, 253 cista, 205 Aristophantes of Athens, 100 Platonic interpretation of, 187, 208, 225, Aristotle, 38, 93–94, 193, 243 233–237 on epideictic oratory, 90–91 repetition in, 198, 221, 232 on phantasia, 109, 111, 122 role of dreams in, 191 Artemidorus, 193 Roman finale, 219 Asinius Marcellus, 18, 52, 220, 225, 246 second initiation (Met. 11.27–28), 178, 219–222 and Q. Asinius Marcellus, 246 secrecy, 231 Athena, 7, 64 solarization of, 217 Athens, 17, 34, 73 tempo of, 219 Attis, 152 third initiation (Met. 11.29–30), 177, 222–223 Auctioneer, 66 transformation of the Metamorphoses, 167 Auerbach, Erich, 58, 66 Book of the Dead, 215 Augustine, 1, 17, 18, 23, 53, 242 Borges, Jorge Luis, 51, 128 Aulus Gellius, 130, 142 Bowden, Hugh, 230 Author Bradley, Keith, 80, 181, 197 as character in a fictional work, 54–55 Brooks, Peter, 165–166 death of, 38–40, 55 Brothers Grimm, 260 Autobiography, 248 Burkert, Walter, 124, 230 Byrrhena, 131, 213 Baker’s wife, 64, 86, 90, 255 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 26, 63, 65–66, 150, 165 Callimachus, 126 Ball, Philip, 9, 10, 25, 83, 240, 260–261 Callirhoe (Chariton), 5, 103 Barthes, Roland, 16, 29, 38, 40, 54 influence on Cupid and Psyche, 130 Barton, Carlin, 83 Calvino, Italo, 147 Bartsch, Shadi, 129 Camouflage, 50, 72 Beck, Roger, 124 Carver, Robert, 32 Beroaldo, Filippo, 5, 32, 36, 101, 181, 241, 257 Cassius Dio, 8 Bibliotheca (Photius), 136 Catullus, 126, 131, 186 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47555-6 — Apuleius' Invisible Ass Geoffrey C. Benson Index More Information Index 291 Cavarero, Adriana, 40 central interpretive problem, 98–99 Cavicchioli, Sonia, 144 Charite’s reaction to, 134 Celsus, 12 complex narration of, 137, 138–143 Cenchreae, 186, 188, 240, 247 connections to the prologue of the Ceres, 103, 132, 191 Metamorphoses, 33–34, 36–37, 60, 122, 131, Chambers, Ross, 37, 127, 143 138–139 Charite, 66, 86, 142, 154, 191, 251 dismemberment in, 155 and Haemus, 64 divergences from the inserted tales in the avoids being eaten alive by animals, 164 ancient novels, 136–143, 144–145 Charite complex, 87 esotericism of, 20, 99, 124–125, 136 Christianity, 151 fault lines with the Apuleian corpus and Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus as bishops, Platonic dialogue, 20, 99–103, 118–119, 17 121, 129 and Sicinius Aemilianus, 73 foreshadowing in, 131 grace, 237 geography in, 138, 147 martyrs, 152 invisibility as a literary device, 100 Metamorphoses (Apuleius) as an allegory invisibility as mythical device, 100 against, 255 length of, 137 potential connections between the New Lucius’ epilogue to, 134–135 Testament and the ancient novels, 49 Milesiae conditor, 37, 38, 46, 140 Cicero, 152, 257 mythical texture of, 122 Civil War (Lucan), 152 narrating situation of, 125, 130 Clodius Albinus, 24 narrator as Lucius, 140 Clouds, 115 narrator as narratrix, 140 Clytemnestra, 154 narrator as Prologue speaker, 21, 141–143 Coarelli, Filippo, 246 narratrix, 33, 98, 138, 142, 254 Constantine, 180 oracle of Apollo, 131 Conte, Gian Biaggio, 14, 55 originality of, 21, 100 Conversion, 218, 237 Platonic interpretation of, 99, 101–102, Cooks, 244 119–121, 147 Corinth, 18, 82, 188, 240, 247 polyvocal narration, 140–141 Corinthian matron, 67, 86, 149, 226 position and length of, 98 Corpses, 71, 76, 149 possible publication as an excerpt in Cult images antiquity, 144 Lucius’ contemplation of, 217 poverty of human speech, 246 of Isis, 204, 217 reception of, 144, 241 Opening of the Mouth ritual, 203 repetition in, 132–134 ritual animation of, 202–205 structure of, 103 Cupid, 141 talking tower, 60, 106, 131 as daemon, 46, 101, 115 tone of, 138 as snake, 131 traces of Gnostic theology in, 182 encounters with Psyche, 104 Voluptas, 252 invisibility of, 41 Curiositas, 25, 58–60 palace of, 14, 40, 103, 104, 111, 138, 139 in Cupid and Psyche, 104 rescues Psyche, 112 meaning of, 58 warns Psyche, 132 of Lucius, 58, 79 Cupid and Psyche, 20–21, 195 of Psyche, 60, 106, 112, 121, 134 acousmatic voices in, 14, 16, 40–41, 43–46, 56, of readers, 16, 59–60, 180, 212 104, 131 Cyranides, 78, 260 affinities with the ideal novels, 136 allusion to in Book 8, 162–163 Daemon, 69, 113 and rites of passage, 125 and Alexander the Great, 8 as a mise en abyme, 127 as intermediary, 12, 42, 48, 146 misleading qualities of, 21, 130–136 in the Metamorphoses, 46 as an allegory, 14, 20, 122, 258 in the New Testament, 49 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47555-6 — Apuleius' Invisible Ass Geoffrey C. Benson Index More Information 292 Index Daemon (cont.) Lucius’ about Asinius Marcellus (Met. origin of term, 42 11.27), 220 secret identities of, 48–49 Lucius’ about Isis (Met. 11.19), 203 texts as mediums for accessing, 239, Lucius’ about Isis (Met. 11.3–6), 191–197 256 Lucius’ about Osiris, 225 daimonion of Socrates, 16, 29, 42, 43, theory of, 193 56, 187 Drews, Friedemann, 36, 186 in Xenophon, 42 Dällenbach, Lucien, 126–128, 141 Echo, 41 Damnatio ad bestias, 152 Egelhaaf-Gaiser, Ulrike, 186, 218, 231 Daphnis and Chloe (Longus), 62, 103, 129 Egyptian gods, 200 epilogue to, 232 Anubis, 200, 201 metamorphosis in, 152 cow, 201 myths in, 137 cult images of, 186 situation of narration, 247 Horus, 169–170 De Interpretatione (Pseudo-Apuleius), 53 Sarapis, 220 de Jong, Irene, 32 theriomorphism, 202 de Nie, Giselle, 10 Thoth, 69 De Officiis (Cicero) Ekphrasis, 187 ethical criticism and fantasy, 94 Book 11 as, 194 ring of Gyges, 12, 62, 77 in Cupid and Psyche, 122, 141 De Re Publica (Apuleius), 3, 77, 101 in the Metamorphoses, 241 DeFilippo, Joseph, 58 of Actaeon and Diana, 1, 2, 66, 131, 156, 190, Deipnosophistae (Athenaeus), 107 192, 195, 204, 206, 217 del Vaga, Perin, 144 of Cupid, 111 Demochares, 79 of Isis, 193–196 Demosthenes, 75 urnula (Met.