Golden Ass Desire and its Discontents 3 Agenda Sexual Universality The Priests of the Syrian Goddess Recap and Update A Reprobate Redeemed Gender in Apuleius Tradition and Normativity Diversity and Empathy ID: 167582
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Apuleius’
Golden Ass
Desire and its Discontents 3Slide2
AgendaSexual Universality?The Priests of the Syrian GoddessRecap and Update
A Reprobate RedeemedGender in ApuleiusTradition and Normativity? Diversity and Empathy?2013-11-25
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Sexual Universality?The Priests of the Syrian GoddessSlide4
Are They “Gay”? (What is Salient?)
“… he [Philebus] was a real old
queen (
cinaedum
)”
(pp.
141)
“ ‘Look,
girls (
puellae
)
,
at the pretty slave [Lucius] I’ve bought.’ [… the others] saying that this wasn’t a servant ... but a husband (non enim seruum, sed maritum) for himself ” (p. 143)“… these effeminates (semiviris illis)...” (p. 144)
Dea SyriaSlide5
Galli (priests of Dea Syria)Mendicant
EunuchTransvestite
Gallus
Atargatis (Syrian
Goddess)
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Golden Ass 3
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Discussion
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Recap and UpdateA Reprobate RedeemedSlide8
Story ArcLucius curiosus (bks
1–3)wants to see magic Meroewatches, turns into an assLucius asinus (bks 3–10)
abusive treatment, fortune comes to the foreLucius initiatus (bk 11)??
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Golden Ass 3
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Psyche
Narrative-Thematic Arcs
temptation,
transformation
Slavery, sexual performance, humiliation
restoration,
conversion
marriage,
temptation
trials, slavery
reunion,
reconciliation,
apotheosis
Lucius
PsycheSlide10
Pleasure Arc“Give me your ear, reader,
you will enjoy yourself (laetaberis)” (p. 7)“… and when her time came there was born to them a daughter, whom we call
Pleasure (Voluptatem).” (p. 106)“… you lowered yourself to servile pleasures (serviles
voluptates
)
and reaped a bitter reward for your
ill-starred curiosity (
curiositatis
inprosperae
)
” (p. 203)
“I entered joyfully (gaudens obibam) on my duties as a member of this ancient college, founded in the time of Sulla”more pleasure
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Golden Ass 3
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Foucault on Pleasure in Seneca
“… gaudium or
laetitia is a state that is neither accompanied nor followed by any form of disturbance in the body or mind. … [Voluptas] denotes
... violent
, uncertain, conditional pleasure
....”
(Foucault
History
vol. 3 pp. 66–67)Slide12
Gender in ApuleiusTradition and Normativity? Diversity and Empathy?Slide13
Gender in ApuleiusMen
Women
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Finnis v. NussbaumFinnis
“… thoughts which have historically been implicit in the judgments of many non-philosophical people, and which have been held to justify the laws adopted in many nations and states” before and after the advent of Christianity (1063).
NussbaumGreek texts “force us to confront the fact that much of what we consider necessary and natural in our own practices is actually local and nonuniversal” (1518–19), whence empathy for difference
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Golden Ass 3
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Discussion
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