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Apuleius

Apuleius (/ˌæpjʊˈləs/, APP-yuu-LEE-əs; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170[1]) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician.[2] He was born in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day M'Daourouch, Algeria.[3] He studied Platonism in Athens, travelled to Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries. The most famous incident in his life was when he was accused of using magic to gain the attentions (and fortune) of a wealthy widow. He declaimed and then distributed his own defense before the proconsul and a court of magistrates convened in Sabratha, near Oea (modern Tripoli, Libya). This is known as the Apologia.

Not to be confused with Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, a Roman demagogue, or others with the name Apuleius or Appuleius.

Apuleius

c. 124

c. 170 (aged 45–46)

Novelist, writer, public speaker

His most famous work is his bawdy picaresque novel the Metamorphoses, otherwise known as The Golden Ass. It is the only Latin novel that has survived in its entirety. It relates the adventures of its protagonist, Lucius, who experiments with magic and is accidentally turned into a donkey. Lucius goes through various adventures before he is turned back into a human being by the goddess Isis.[4]

Florida. A compilation of twenty-three extracts from his various speeches and lectures.

De Platone et dogmate eius (On Plato and his Doctrine). An outline in two books of 's physics and ethics, preceded by a life of Plato

Plato

De Deo Socratis (On the God of Socrates). A work on the existence and nature of , the intermediaries between gods and humans. This treatise was attacked by Augustine of Hippo. It contains a passage comparing gods and kings which is the first recorded occurrence of the proverb "familiarity breeds contempt":[27]

parit enim conversatio contemptum, raritas conciliat admirationem
(familiarity breeds contempt, rarity brings admiration)

daemons

On the Universe. This Latin translation of 's work De Mundo is probably by Apuleius.

Pseudo-Aristotle

Apuleian Sphere[edit]

The Apuleian Sphere described in Petosiris to Nechepso, also known as "Columcille's Circle" or "Petosiris' Circle",[30] is a magical prognosticating device for predicting the survival of a patient.[31]

Boethius

Square of opposition

at Standard Ebooks

Works by Apuleius in eBook form

at Project Gutenberg

Works by Apuleius

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Apuleius

Works by Apuleius at Perseus Digital Library

at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Works by Apuleius

at Open Library

Works by Apuleius

(the Metamorphoses) and pars II (Florida, De Deo Socratis, De Dogmate Platonis, De Mundo Libri, Asclepius, Apologia et Fragmenta), in a critical edition with explanatory notes

L. Apuleii Opera Omnia, Lipsia, sumtibus C. Cnoblochii, 1842, pars I

(English translation)

The works of Apuleius, London, George Bell and sons, 1878

Apuleius (123–180 CE) the Famous Berber writer

(Latin texts of all the surviving works of Apuleius) at The Latin Library

Apulei Opera

English translation of Florida by H. E. Butler

English translation of the Apologia by H. E. Butler

English translation of the God of Socrates by Thomas Taylor

(Latin text of the Apologia with H. E. Butler's English translation and an English crib with discussion and commentary)

Apuleius – Apologia: Seminar

Apology as Prosecution: The Trial of Apuleius

: text, concordances and frequency list

Apuleius' works

Ongoing website for "Apuleius and Africa" conference

Apuleius and Africa Bibliography

: a digital humanities project

The Spectacles of Apuleius

translated by George Burges

Free public domain audiobook version of Apuleius on the Doctrines of Plato