Contents -- A Note on Texts and Translations -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Apuleius and Drama: The Purpose of This Book -- 1.2. Scholarship and Methodology -- 1.3. Comedy, Mime, and the Novel -- 2. Knowledge of Drama and Archaism in the Second Century -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Tragedy and Comedy in Greece -- 2.3. Watching Plays in the Roman World -- 2.4. Theatrical Archaeology in North Africa -- 2.5. Education through Studying Drama: The Sophist's Case -- 2.6. Second-Century Archaism and Apuleius -- 2.7. Conclusion -- 3. Drama Philosophy, and Rhetoric: Apuleius' Minor Works -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Quotations from Drama in Apuleius' De Deo Socratis -- 3.3. De Mundo and De Platone et eius Dogmate -- 3.4. Drama in the Florida -- 3.5. An Apuleian 'Translation' from Greek Comedy: Anechomenos -- 3.6. Conclusion -- 4. Courtroom Drama: Apuleius' Apologia -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Exordium ('Introduction') 1-3 -- 4.3. Refutation of Subsidiary, Non-magical Charges 4-24 -- 4.4. Refutation of 'Minor' Magical Charges 25.5-65 -- 4.5. Refutation of 'Major' Charges concerning Pudentilla's Marriage 66-101 -- 4.6. Conclusion -- 5. The Texture of the Metamorphoses -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The Prologue -- 5.3. Comedy in Prose: Comic Elements of the Narrative Texture -- 5.4. Conclusion -- 6. The Drama of Aristomenes and Socrates -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Dramatic Posturing -- 6.3. What Kind of Drama? -- 6.4. Crossing the Genres -- 6.5. Metatheatre and Metafiction -- 6.6. Conclusion -- 7. A Parasite in a Comic Household -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Lucius' Comic Characterization: Lucius as a Parasite? -- 7.3. Milo's House: A domus comica ('Comic Household') -- 7.4. Conclusion -- 8. The Risus Festival: Laughing at Laughter -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Comedy and Theatrical Setting -- 8.3. Risus Festival: History or Apuleian Invention?.

8.4. The God Risus and his Sources -- 8.5. Why 'Laughter'? -- 8.6. Forum and Theatre: The Setting of the Trial -- 8.7. The Crime: Killing the Wineskins -- 8.8. Apuleius and Aristophanes -- 8.9. Young Drunkards -- 8.10. Actor and Auctor -- 8.11. Conclusion -- 9. Cupid and Psyche: A Divine Comedy -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Elements of Tragedy -- 9.3. Beyond Tragedy -- 9.4. Comedy -- 9.5. Mythological Travesties in Comedy: Plautus' Amphitruo -- 9.6. Plautine Tragicomedy and Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche -- 9.7. Apuleius' dramatis personae -- 9.8. Conclusion -- 10. Charite: How Comedies Do Not End -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. The Old Woman as a Dramatic Nurse -- 10.3. Charite's Dream -- 10.4. Feminine Suicides -- 10.5. Scaena and persona -- 10.6. Charite's Comedy -- 10.7. Charite's Tragedy -- 10.8. Conclusion -- 11. 'Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light': Metamorphoses, Book 10 -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. The Inset Tales: 'Phaedra' and 'Menander' -- 11.3. The Main Narrative: 'Miles gloriosus' and 'Cooks' -- 11.4. Conclusion -- 12. The End: Isis: Dea ex machina? -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. Tragedy -- 12.3. Comedy -- 12.4. 'Why Isis?' -- 12.5. The Anteludia -- 12.6. Conclusion and Outlook -- 13. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.