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Name: Lucius Apuleius
Birth Date: c. 124
Death Date: c. 170
Place of Birth: Madauros, Numidia
Nationality: Roman
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, philosopher, orator

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Biography of Lucius Apuleius
5,194 words, approx. 17 pages
Apuleii Opera Omnia, 2 volumes, edited by Gustav Friedrich Hildebrand (Leipzig: C. Cnobloch, 1842; reprinted, Hildesheim: Olms, 1968); Ad Apulei Madaurensis Metamorphoseon librum primum commentarius exegeticus, edited by Margaretha Molt (Groningen: M....
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Biography of (Lucius) (Madaurensis) Apuleius
4,775 words, approx. 16 pages
Apuleius Madaurensis, or Apuleius of Madauros, is best known as the author of the Latin novel Asinus Aureus (The Golden Ass, after A.D. 160). The "Madaurensis" part of his name refers to his place of birth, Madauros, now known as Mdaurusch in modern...
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Biography of Lucius Apuleius
1,519 words, approx. 5 pages
The influence of Lucius Apuleius (c.124-170) on the development of Western prose fiction can not be overestimated. His Metamorphoses, the only surviving novel in Latin, has provided a model stylistically, thematically, and structurally, for many of the...


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Apuleius Quotes
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Poverty is the discoverer of all the...


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Apuleius Information
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Lucius Apuleius Platonicus (c. AD 123/125-c. AD 180), an utterly Romanized Berber who described himself as "half-Numidian half-Gaetulian", is remembered most for his bawdy picaresque Latin novel the Metamorphoses, otherwise known as The Golden Ass or,...


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Canadian Journal of History
Romanitas and the Roman Family: The Evidence of Apuleius's Apology(1).
08/01/2000: 12,647 words, approx. 42 pages
In AD 158/9 at Sabratha in Roman Tripolitania, Apuleius of Madauros was accused of having used magic to entice into marriage the wealthy Oean widow Aemilia Pudentilla. Apuleius was tried before the proconsul of Africa and spoke in his own defence. The speech he...
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Reference & Research Book News
The fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass; a study in transmission and reception.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
05/01/2008: 158 words, approx. 1 pages
9780691131368 The fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass; a study in transmission and reception. Gaisser, Julia Haig. Princeton U. Press 2008 365 pages $47.50 Hardcover Martin classical lectures PA6217 Second-century Roman writer...
 


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Lives of the Lower Class
3,138 words, approx. 11 pages
This essay is about the depiction of the lives of the lower classes by Apuleius as an author and a character. The information in the essay comes from the book "The Golden Ass" by Apuleius.


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