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Apuleius (/ ˌ æ p j ʊ ˈ l iː ə s / APP-yuu-LEE-əs; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician.
Translation. The Golden Ass at Wikisource. The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, which Augustine of Hippo referred to as The Golden Ass ( Asinus aureus ), [1] is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive in its entirety. [2] The protagonist of the novel is Lucius. [3]
Lucius Apuleius (born c. 124 ce, Madauros, Numidia [near modern M’Daourouch, Algeria]—died probably after 170 ce) was a Platonic philosopher, rhetorician, and author remembered for The Golden Ass, a prose narrative that proved influential long after his death.
Little known in the medieval period, Apuleius was enthusiastically rediscovered in the Renaissance, and much read and studied, forming the center of debates about Latin prose style (Apuleius versus Cicero); his novel influenced important writers such as Shakespeare and Sidney, and the story of Cupid and Psyche from the Metamorphoses has ...
The Golden Ass, prose narrative of the 2nd century ce by Lucius Apuleius, who called it Metamorphoses. In all probability Apuleius used material from a lost Metamorphoses by Lucius of Patrae, which is cited by some as the source for an extant Greek work on a similar theme, the brief Lucius, or the.
Apuleius. The Golden Ass, being the Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius. Stephen Gaselee. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1915. Keyboarding. The Mellon Foundation provided support for entering this text.
Feb 6, 2021 · The famous tale of Cupid and Psyche from Apuleius's The Golden Ass, translated and edited by John Shinners, with notes and illustrations by Brittany Blagburn and Jessalynn Bird.
About Apuleius, a second century CE polymath, whose defense speech on a charge of magic you will read below; His background, education, and marriage to a rich widow in a town in North Africa; The background to his trial for enchanting that rich widow in marriage;
In the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, also known as The Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic.
Apuleius (c.125-c.180): Roman author and orator. Apuleius on a fresco from Trier. Apuleius was born in Madauros, modern M'daourouch in Algeria, a Roman colony in the province of Numidia, far from the romanized Mediterranean shores.
