Serviles Voluptates in Apuleius' Metamorphoses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3937352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerald N Sandy, Gerald Sandy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 234 |
| Publication date | 1974-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phoenix (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1087421 |
| OpenAlex | W2320786354 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
I shall argue in this paper that Fotis, far from being a symbol of sexual lust, represents one face of the coin of mysticism, the face that is discredited in Book 11. In other words, the servitude expressed in the phrases servilem modum and serviles voluptates denotes Lucius' obsessive desire to meddle in the malevolent affairs of witchcraft.2 This is not to say that he is by any means a Puritan. After, as he reports (2.6.7), first ignoring Fotis' advances and then resolving to court her instead of her married mistress (2.6.6), he develops a genuinely passionate attachment to her (2.16-17), without which his vow of celibacy in Isis' service would be less significant (11.19.3). It is nonetheless clear, as I hope to explain more fully, that it is not lust to which he is enslaved. The onlookers in Book 11 certainly do not think that he has been an abandoned libertine (11.16.4
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2021 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |