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Lucius Apuleius Platonicus (c. 123/125 – c. 180) was a Latin prose writer remembered most for his bawdy picaresque novel, the Metamorphoses , otherwise known as The Golden Ass ( Asinus Aureus )...
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The humorous narrative in eleven books by Lucius Apuleius. ... by Lucius Apuleius ... Notes on this Edition; Epistle Dedicatory; To the Reader; The Life of Lucius Apuleius; The Preface of the Author; Glossary...
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The Golden Asse, by Lucius Apuleius, tr. by William Adlington, at sacred-texts.com ... LUCIUS APULEIUS African, an excellent follower of Plato his sect, born in Madaura, a Countrey sometime inhabited by the Romans, and under the jurisdiction of Syphax, scituate and lying on the borders of Numidia and Getulia,
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The cult of Isis was one of the most important of the empire wide cults in the later empire, and perhaps its greatest monument is in Lucius Apuleius very strange novel, The Golden Ass. Here Isis appears to Lucius, and claims to be all goddesses.
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Apuleius wrote The Golden Ass or The Metamorphoses (also Transformations of Lucius), and Apologia, as well as treatises on Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle. ... Apuleius of Madauros - Lucius Apuleius...
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See biography, media. A Romanized Berber who described himself as "half-Numidian half-Gaetulian". ... Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be ... Jump to: navigation, search...
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Lucius Apuleius lived and wrote in Latin in Romanized North Africa around the middle of the 2 nd c. A.D. He was well versed in the popular Greek writing of the time, and shows in all his prose a strong interest in the supernatural, in Eastern religions, and in magic.
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It is particularly valuable for its description of the ancient religious mysteries, and Lucius' restoration from animal to human shape, with the aid of Isis, and his acceptance into her priesthood suggests that Apuleius himself had been initiated into that cult.
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