Apuleius (/ˌæpjʊˈliːəs/ APP-yuu-LEE-əs; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist...
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The Golden Ass (redirect from Metamorphoses (Apuleius))
work preceding Apuleius' Apology of 158–159, or as the climax of his literary career, and perhaps as late as the 170s or 180s. Apuleius adapted the story...
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Pseudo-Apuleius is the name given in modern scholarship to the author of a 4th-century herbal known as Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarius or Herbarium Apuleii...
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Cupid and Psyche (section In Apuleius)
Rome, p. 338. Entry on "Apuleius", in The Classical Tradition (Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. 56–57. E.J. Kenney, Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche (Cambridge...
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Curius and Apuleius were chieftains of the Lusitanians, a proto-Celtic tribe from western Hispania. They were active at the last phase of the Lusitanian...
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s.v. Psyche; Frazer on Pausanias 8.17.6; Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.13. Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.14. Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.15. Hard, p. 110. Tripp...
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Gaius Appuleius Diocles (redirect from Gaius Apuleius Diocles)
Gaius Appuleius Diocles (104 – after 146 AD) was a Roman charioteer. His existence and career are attested by two highly detailed contemporary inscriptions...
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is the daughter born from the union of Cupid and Psyche, according to Apuleius. The Latin word voluptas means 'pleasure' or 'delight'; Voluptas is known...
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their feast day. Apuleius is considered purely legendary, and is no longer recognized. Marcellus was associated with a Saint Apuleius, which led to them...
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also known as Metamorphoses, written by the Roman philosopher and orator Apuleius in the 2nd century. In the myth, she was given multiple trials to be with...
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Caelius Rhodiginus (redirect from Lucius Caecilius Minutianus Apuleius)
Caelius Rhodiginus (born Lodovico Ricchieri; 1469, Rovigo–1525, Rovigo) was a Venetian writer, and professor in Greek and Latin. His original name was...
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Psyche with a kiss. The story of Cupid and Psyche is taken from Lucius Apuleius' Latin novel The Golden Ass, and was popular in art. Joachim Murat acquired...
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History of Roman-era Tunisia (section Lucius Apuleius)
Lindsay, "Apuleius and his Work" 5–28, at 5–6, in Apuleius, The Golder Ass (Indiana University 1960). Apuleius quoted in Lindsay, "Apuleius and his Work"...
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Western novel", as well as Petronius' Satyricon, Lucian's True Story, Apuleius' The Golden Ass, and the anonymous Aesop Romance and Alexander Romance...
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Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius of Tyana...
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1st–2nd century AD, such as Satyricon by Petronius and The Golden Ass by Apuleius had a relevant influence on the picaresque genre and are considered predecessors...
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Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius of Tyana...
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sulla Natura, P. Parroni editor, Mondadori, 2010 Apuleius, Lucius. "The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura". The Project Gutenberg. Translated...
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parallels between rites from mystery religions and baptism in Christianity. Apuleius, a 2nd-century Roman writer, described an initiation into the mysteries...
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Menaechmi by Plautus, Cena Trimalchionis by Petronius, and The Golden Ass of Apuleius are ribald classics from ancient Greece and Rome. Geoffrey Chaucer's "The...
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festival in honor of Risus (i. e. Gelos) in Thessaly was described by Apuleius, but it is unknown whether it was an actual event or writer's invention...
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blood). Love magic Cupid / Eros Crumbie, Laurence. "The Typicality of Apuleius' Witches" (PDF). Exeter.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 December 2022. "love-potion"...
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Mysteries of Isis (section Apuleius's description)
cult, whether or not Apuleius himself was in fact an initiate of Isiac religion". In another of his works, the Apologia, Apuleius claims to have undergone...
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4. Pausanias, 1.37.2; Grimal, s.v. Phytalus, p. 373. Apuleius, The Golden Ass 5.28-31 Apuleius, The Golden Ass 6.1-4 Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.4.7; Grimal...
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the Asclepius was falsely attributed to the Middle Platonist philosopher Apuleius (c. 124 – after 170). The text of the Asclepius was used by the philosopher...
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elements; and erotic and decadent passages. As with The Golden Ass by Apuleius (also called the Metamorphoses), classical scholars often describe it as...
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Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius of Tyana...
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Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius of Tyana...
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De Materia Medica E 2.101; Pliny, Natural History 21.107–115; Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarius 79, as cited by Andrew Dalby, Food in the Ancient World from...
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Sheikh Ben Badis in colonial times, are widely noted. The Latin author Apuleius was born in Madaurus (Mdaourouch), in what later became Algeria. Contemporary...
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