{"product_id":"9789077922415","title":"Paideia at Play: Learning and Wit in Apuleius","description":"Paidea, the yearning for, and display of knowledge, reached its height as a cultural concept in the works of the Second Sophistic, an elite literary and philosophical movement seeking to ape the style and achievements of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. A crucial element in the display of paidea was an ability to mix the witty and playful with the serious and instructive. The Second Sophistic is known as a Greek phenomenon, but these essays ask how the Latin author Apuleius fitted into this framework, and created a distinctively latin expression of paidea, focusing on the elements of playfulness at its heart.","brand":"Barkhuis Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058382225648,"sku":"9789077922415","price":124.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789077922415_p0.jpg?v=1763671299","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789077922415","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}