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	Apuleius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Apuleius followed this rifacimento, making it, however, the groundwork of an elaborate romance, interspersed with numerous episodes, of which the beautiful story of Cupid and Psyche is the most celebrated, and altering the dénouement to suit the religious revival of which he was an apostle.
		Lucius subsequently becomes a worshiper of Isis, and Apuleius provides a lengthy account of his initiation into the mysteries of Isis, which some see as autobiographical.
		The character of Apuleius, as delineated by himself, is attractive; he appears vehement and passionate, but devoid of rancour; enterprising, munificent, genial and an enthusiast for the beautiful and good.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apuleius (1947 words)

	The Golden Ass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lucius wrote it in the second century CE, adapting the story from a Greek original, possibly by Lucius of Patrae.
		In this guise, Lucius, a member of the Roman country aristocracy, is forced to witness and share the misery of slaves and destitute freemen who are reduced, like Lucius, to being little more than beasts of burden by their exploitation at the hands of wealthy landowners.
		Apuleius' style is as amusing as his stories, for though he was not a Roman by birth, Apuleius was a master of Latin prose.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Golden_Ass (922 words)

	The Tazzla Institute - Apuleius of Madaurus
		Lucius Apuleius is known as the author of several prose masterpieces written in Latin.
		Apuleius was strictly a citizen of Rome due to the fact that his ancestral land was then a Roman colony, and Roman citizenship had been granted to the inhabitants of the colony of Madauros.
		Apuleius was born around 124 AD in Madauros, a Roman colony in the south of Numidia, which was situated in an area now located near modern Mdaourouch in Algeria, and he died some time after 180 AD in or around Carthage.
	www.tazzla.org /apuleius.htm (3514 words)

	THE GOLDEN ASS OF APULEIUS - B. Slade
		Apuleius celebrates the sensual aspects of life and his vivacious descriptions of erotic scenes illustrate his possession of the 'cavalier-poet' virtue of living life to the fullest, both the pleasurable and the painful.
		At the centre of Apuleius's interweaving of tales is that of 'Cupid and Psyche'.
		For instance, the comic encounter of Lucius and his miserly host Milo is offset by the tragic drama of the story of Socrates's death; the Lucius's romantic sexual encounters with the maidservant contrast with the horrifying story of Thelyphron's disfigurement he hears in the same book.
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	Apuleius, Lucius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Apuleius, who was educated at Carthage and Athens, traveled in the Mediterranean region and became interested in contemporary religious initiation rites, among them the ceremonies associated with worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis.
		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.
		Apuleius' claim that he was also the author of numerous poems and works on natural history has not been proved, and the noted Asclepius, a Latin version of a Greek dialogue, has been wrongly attributed to him.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /jod/texts/apuleius/eb.html (465 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Lu-Lz) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lucius Apuleius was a Roman lawyer, philosopher and author.
		LUCIUS F. Lucius F C Garvin was an American politician.
		LUCIUS F. Lucius F Hubbard was an American politician.
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	Apuleius metamorphoses biblio
		Frangoulidis, "Vergil's tale of the Trojan horse in Apuleius' robber-tale of Thrasyleon," PP 46 (1991) 95-111.
		Murgatroyd, "Embedded narrative in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 1.9-10," MH 58 (2001) 40-46.
		Mason, "The distinction of Lucius in Apuleius' Metamorphoses," Phoenix 37 (1983) 135-43.
	classics.rutgers.edu /apuleius_metam_biblio.htm (4798 words)

	Dry Bones in a Dry Season
		In the time of Lucius Apuleius, the ancient mysteries of the mother goddess were still being taught and celebrated in the little city of Eleusis not far from Athens.
		Apuleius spent the latter part of his life as an honorable and prosperous citizen in Carthage, where he was elected to priesthood in the imperial cult and found, obviously, no conflict of interest or belief in performing his "sacred" duties.
		Lucius Apuleius was a philosopher, a rhetorician, a bureaucrat, and an advocate at law, but he is best remembered, where he is remembered at all, as a novelist.
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	APULEIUS - B. Slade
		Apuleius began his education in Carthage, at that time a renowned school of literature, adopting there a Platonic system of philosophy.
		Apuleius had spent most of his patrimony on his travels and studies or gifts to teachers and friends—and he was a philosopher—so he decided upon marrying the widow.
		Apuleius seems to have been relatively unconcerned about the issue, and flung himself with great enthusiasm into the trial, which allowed him fantastic opportunities for showing off his wit, rhetoric and erudition.
	www.jnanam.net /golden-ass/apuleius.html (1054 words)

	AllRefer.com - Lucius Apuleius (Classical Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Lucius Apuleius[a´´pyoolE´us] Pronunciation Key, c.124–c.170, Latin writer, satirist, rhetorician, b.
		It tells the story of Lucius of Corinth, who is transformed into an ass by a Thessalian woman and undergoes a series of strange and exciting adventures before he is restored to human form.
		Other works by Apuleius include The Apology or On Magic, his defense in a suit brought by his wife's family for gaining her affections by magic; Florida, an anthology of his works; and On the God of Socrates, On the Philosophy of Plato, and On the World, philosophical treatises.
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	the golden ass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius, more commonly known as The Golden Ass, is the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety.
		Written in the second century CE, it is a precursor to the literary genre of the episodic picaresque novel, in which Rabelais, Boccaccio, Voltaire, Defoe, and many others have followed.
		The humourous prose of the earlier chapters is exchanged for an equally powerful, sometimes quasi-poetic style that draws upon Lucius' religious experiences, which were likely autobiographical The final chapter is not entirely humourless, but the humour has become much more subtle.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /the_golden_ass.html (605 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Apuleius
		Apuleius, Lucius (125?-200?), Roman philosopher and writer, born in Madaurus, Numidia (now Algeria).
		According to legend, Cupid, the ancient Roman god of love (his Greek counterpart was Eros), and the princess Psyche fell in love.
		The Golden Ass, written by 2nd-century Roman philosopher and writer Lucius Apuleius, recounts the misadventures of Lucius, a man whose curiosity...
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	Lucius Apuleius Biography / Biography of Lucius Apuleius Main Biography
		The influence of Lucius Apuleius (c.124-170) on the development of Western prose fiction can not be overestimated.
		Apuleius was born sometime around the year 124 in the city of Madaura (near modern Mdaourouch in Algeria) in the Roman province of Numidia, during the reign of Hadrian.
		Apuleius admitted spending nearly all of his inheritance on his twin passions: travel and study.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-lucius-apuleius (232 words)

	THE DATE OF APULEIUS
		If Apuleius was acquitted, as most scholars readily assume,[27] and subsequently enjoyed wide fame as a [START PAGE 230] sophist and speaker, he might have wished to mention his famous self-defence in some way.
		The parallels between Lucius and Apuleius himself induced readers throughout the ages to take the novel as a proper autobiographical account (both are young, well educated, have an investigative nature, to mention just one or two points).
		Apuleius' daring strategy of the outright denial of ' facts' and ' bluffing his way through the trial' aims at silencing the opponents.
	www.let.kun.nl /V.Hunink/documents/apul_met_date.htm (5374 words)

	Apuleius - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Apuleius was born about AD 125 in Madaura or Madauros (moden Mdaurusch), a Roman colony in the North African province of Numidia.
		For his education Apuleius was sent first to Carthage, the capital of roman North Africa, and then to Athens.
		This was at the instance of one of her sons, whome he had known at Rome; but other members of her family objected and prosecuted Apuleius on various charges, principally that of winning Pudentilla's affections by magic.
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		Because Apuleius himself is a very controversial figure who appears in the letters of St Augustine to Volusianus and Marcellinus as a threat to the new Christian faith as they found him comparable to Christ.
		Apuleius was an devotee of Isis and initiated into the secret mysteries of Osiris, a renown student of Plato, of ancient mystery cults and of Asclepius.
		Lucius is a poet, who in seeking for enlightenment through the mysteries of sorcery inadvertantly gets transformed into an ass.
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	Apuleius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		The Metamorphoses often referred to as The Golden Ass, is written in a Grecizing style, with fairly involved syntax, couched in a large vocabulary.
	community.middlebury.edu /~harris/LatinAuthors/Apuleius.html (314 words)

	Alibris: Apuleius
		Apulius wrote this bawdy novel, the only such work to survive in Latin, in the second century A.D. It is the story of Lucius, an aristocratic young man, and his adventures in Thessaly, culminating in his metamorphosis into an ass as punishment for betraying a priestess.
		by Apuleius, and Dulac, Edmund, and Pater, Walter
		Apuleius was a Roman citizen born around 130 A.D. He inherited a large sum of money from his father, and after traveling extensively, he settled down to a literary life at Carthage where he was held in great honor.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Apuleius (996 words)

	Golden Ass, the - Lucius Apuleius - Review - The Best Piece of Asse in Ancient Rome
		Lucius Apuleius's 'The Golden Ass'; is a bawdy, ribald and hilarious story of magic and erotica from the 2nd century A.D. But don’t let the date put you off—this book is unique, entertaining and thoroughly readable, with a very modern feel.
		Lucius Apuleius lived and wrote in Latin in Romanised North Africa around the middle of the 2nd century 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.
		The miracle which the goddess works in Lucius is the release of the individual from the distortion of his adult life by the continuing pangs and dissatisfactions of infancy’.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/golden-ass-the-lucius-apuleius/338960 (1820 words)

	Amazon.com: The Golden Ass : The Transformations of Lucius: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The story follows Lucius, a young man of good birth, as he disports himself in the cities and along the roads of Thessaly.
		Lucius, the donkey, is involved in several close calls.
		Tales of magical metamorphoses are the very stuff of antiquity, and while Apuleius 'Golden Ass' more or less occupied a category of light-reading - akin to the modern novel (novella), it is worth bearing in mind that 'magic' was real enough for Apuleius' and his contemporaries.
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	Apuleius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was born in Madaurus, a Roman colony in Numidia on the border with Gaetulia, now the town of Mdaourouch, Algeria, a district well away from the Romanized coast, but where some pristine Roman ruins remain.
		His father was a provincial magistrate and he inherited a substantial fortune from him.
		Apuleius studied with a master at Carthage and later at Athens, where he studied Platonic philosophy among other subjects.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/ap/Apuleius.htm (462 words)

	The Golden Asse
		In her right hand shee had a timbrell of brasse, which gave a pleasant sound, in her left hand shee bare a cup of gold, out of the mouth whereof the serpent Aspis lifted up his head, with a swelling throat, her odoriferous feete were covered with shoes interlaced and wrought with victorious palme.
		When we were come to the temple, the divine figures, but especially those which had long time bin worshippers of the religion, went into the secret chamber of the goddesse, where they put and placed the images according to their ordor [sic].
		In the meane season newes was carried into my countrey (as swift as the flight of birds, or as the blast of windes) of the grace and benefit which I received of the goddesse, and of my fortune worthy to be had in memory.
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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He contends that once the acceptance of the final transformation of Lucius in book eleven by both Lucius and the audience is recognized as the ultimate goal of the Metamorphoses, then the work can be understood as a “disciplined, purposeful composition throughout.” Tatum begins his argument with the final book of the Metamorphoses.
		It is not simply Lucius who has a curious and simple nature, but all psyche, all souls of men, and only those psyche who are so simple as to not know evil can be saved.
		In this section of the Metamorphoses, Lucius revels in his role as the unseen observer; Tatum points out that while he occasionally interferes in the lives of those around him, mostly he is content simply to reflect upon the goings-on about him.
	filebox.vt.edu:8080 /users/laward3/tatum.doc (829 words)

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		And in this feined jest of Lucius Apuleius is comprehended a figure of mans life, ministring most sweet and delectable matter, to such as shall be desirous to read the same.
		Thus when I was pleasantly mocked and taunted by Fotis, I sayd unto her, Verily now may I for this atchieved enterprise be numbered as Hercules, who by his valiant prowesse performed the twelve notable Labors, as Gerion with three bodies, and as Cerberus with three heads, for I have slaine three blown Goats skinnes.
		Then (quoth shee) O my Lucius, how willing would I be to fulfil your desire, but by reason shee is so hated, she getteth her selfe into solitary places, and out of the presence of every person, when she mindeth to work her enchantments.
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		Thus when I was pleasantly mocked and taunted by Fotis, I sayd unto her, verily now may I for this atcheived enterprise be numbered as Hercules, who by his valiant prowesse performed the twelve notable Labors, as Gerion with three bodies, and as Cerberus with three heads, for I have slaine three blown goat skinnes.
		Then (quoth she) O my Lucius, how willing would I be to fulfil your desire, but by reason shee is so hated, she getteth her selfe into solitary places, and out of the presence of every person, when she mindeth to work her enchantments.
		Thus as we reasoned together the courage of Venus assailed, as well our desires as our members, and so she unrayed herself and came to bed, and we passed the night in pastime and dalliance, till as by drowsie and unlusty sleep I was constrained to lie still.
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	The Golden Ass: Or Metamorphoses (100s) - Apuleius
		Ribaldry has likely been around for the whole history of the human race, and is present to some degree in every culture.
		Works like Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the Cena Trimalchionis by Petronius, and the Metamorphoses or Golden Ass of Apuleius are ribald classics from ancient Europe.
		Numerous amusing stories, many of which seem to be based on actual folk tales with their ordinary themes of simple-minded husbands, adulterous wives, and clever lovers, as well as the magical transformations that characterize the entire novel, are included within the main narrative.
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