{"product_id":"9780198896340","title":"Apuleius on the Cosmos","description":"Apuleius' \u003cem\u003eDe Mundo\u003c\/em\u003e ('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 \u003cem\u003ePeri Kosmou\u003c\/em\u003e (traditionally, but confusingly in this context, referred to as the \u003cem\u003eDe Mundo\u003c\/em\u003e). 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume offers the first English translation of the \u003cem\u003eDe Mundo\u003c\/em\u003e, which it presents in parallel with a new English translation of the Aristotelian \u003cem\u003ePeri Kosmou\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eDe Mundo\u003c\/em\u003e is deeply informed by Apuleius' Platonism, especially a view of providence which differs substantially from that of the \u003cem\u003ePeri Kosmou\u003c\/em\u003e, and that it is an important text for understanding philosophical debate in the second century CE.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46677885255921,"sku":"9780198896340","price":197.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780198896340_p0.jpg?v=1767879608","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780198896340","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}