1. Apuleius’ Golden Ass Desire and its Discontents 1

2. A title, a story…

3. Pan Midas Apollo

4. Agenda Foucault’s Care of the Self Desire Reevaluated? Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Introduction Discussion “Asinine Values” and Their Universality?

5. Foucault’s Care of the Self Desire Reevaluated?

6. History of Sexuality (1976-1984) An Introduction Modernity (1800 CE-) The Use of Pleasure Archaic-Classical Greece (700-300 BCE) The Care of the Self Imperial Rome, Greco-Roman late antiquity (1-200 CE)

7. Foucault: From Vol. 2 to Vol. 3 Use of Pleasures (vol. 2) Gender/sex performance art Normativity navigated by “free” actors… Care of the Self (vol. 3) “[I]n this game of violence, excess, rebellion, and combat, the accent is placed … on the weakness of the individual, … on his need to … protect and shelter himself. Sexual ethics requires... that the individual conform to a certain art of living…. But this art refers … to universal principles of nature or reason….” (67) Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. Volume 3: The Care of the Self. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. Print.

8. Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Introduction

9. Apuleius born 125 CE Madaura (Algeria) African-Roman Orator, author, philosopher  Prosecution for magic widow Pudentilla history map

10. 1,000 B.C. 1,000 A.D. Greece, 550: BCE–CE 200 Rome, 200 BCE–125 CE Trojan War ca. 1,200 BCE Rome founded 753 BCE Athenian democracy 400s– 300s B.C. Roman Republic 510–27 BCE Periods covered in course When… Roman Empire 27 BCE–CE 475

11. Lesbos Thessaly Carthage Naples, Pompeii, Herculaneum Oea Maduara

12. Story Arc Lucius curiosus Busybody, voyeur Lucius asinus Bestial appetites, exaggerated anatomy Lucius initiatus Isis worship, transformation

13. “Adultery itself indeed seems to be only the fruit of curiosity about another man's pleasures, and an inquiring and prying into things kept close and hidden from the world; while curiosity is a tampering with and seduction of and revealing the nakedness of secrets.” Plutarch De curiositate (Moralia 519b–c)

14. Actaeon spies on Diana bathing, Italian, 17 th -18 th cent.

15. Discussion “Asinine Values” and Their Universality?

16. Finnis v. Nussbaum Finnis Traditional morality standard Textual-historical validation Nussbaum Evolving standards perspective Ancient texts as Thought experiments in diversity

17. Journal Question Does the narrative dramatize a value system alien to the Finnis-Nussbaum debate? Does it seem to validate either thinker in any way? Explain....

18. Discussion agreed with finnis fidelity/hetero relationships as in satyricon, so here clashing of f and n tradition surface affirmation deeper challenge photis’ hair lustful, physical, less affectionate witches thing thelyphron??? thieves honor system trying to be heroic, self- validating strategy no one wants to think of themselves as the bad guys