Apuleius
2nd-century Numidian Latin-language writer, rhetorician and philosopher · Writers · Lived 125 to 170 · aged 45
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Something wrong?The only complete Latin novel that survived antiquity is about a man who uses magic, gets turned into a donkey, and has to beg a goddess to fix it. Apuleius wrote it in the 2nd century, and also had to stand trial for allegedly using actual magic to seduce a rich widow.
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Amor en Psyche bij de goden, RP-P-2019-3100
Apulegio volgare, diuiso in undeci libri, novamente stampato & in molti lochi aggiontoui che nella prima impressione gli manchaua, & de molte più figure adornato MET DP108973
Apulegio volgare, diuiso in undeci libri, novamente stampato & in molti lochi aggiontoui che nella prima impressione gli manchaua, & de molte più figure adornato MET DP108974
Apulegio volgare, diuiso in undeci libri, novamente stampato & in molti lochi aggiontoui che nella prima impressione gli manchaua, & de molte più figure adornato MET DP108977
Apuleius - Project Gutenberg eText 12788
Apuleius advises the use of demons as mediators between mankind and the gods
Apuleius-négyszögIn their own words 6
, Thus the Phrygians, earliest of all races, call me Pessinuntia, mother of all gods.
And in that day men will be weary of life, and they will cease to think the universe worthy of reverent wonder and of worship.
They will no longer love this world around us, this incomparable work of God, this glorious structure which He has built...
About this person
Apuleius was born around 124 in the Berber city of Madauros in the Roman province of Numidia. He studied Platonism in Athens, traveled through Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and was initiated into several mystery cults. The most dramatic episode of his life came when he was accused of using magic to win the attention and fortune of a wealthy widow; he defended himself before the proconsul and magistrates in Sabratha and later published the speech as the Apologia. His bawdy picaresque novel the Metamorphoses - also called The Golden Ass - is the only ancient Latin novel to survive intact. It follows Lucius, who experiments with magic, accidentally transforms into a donkey, endures a string of misadventures, and is finally restored to human form by the goddess Isis.
Writers born in the 120s 2
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