Apuleius
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Thus the Phrygians, earliest of all races, call me Pessinuntia, mother of all gods.
— Apuleius, XI.5 (trans. Griffiths, 1975, p. 75). quoted in Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Vol. I, published
Apuleius
2nd-century Numidian Latin-language writer, rhetorician and philosopher
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- Fame66.6
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- Writers rank#61
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Lived 125–170, aged 45
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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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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 fol…
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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.
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They will no longer love this world around us, this incomparable work of God, this glorious structure which He has built...
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Darkness will be preferred to light, and death will be thought more profitable than life; no one will raise his eyes to heaven.
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The pious will be deemed insane, and the impious wise; the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good.
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