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 stylistica...
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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...
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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 ...
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The lives of the lower class people as depicted by Apuleius are different in a multitude of ways. There is a "lower class" status as many people are correctly labeled throughout the story, but there ...
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