Lucius Apuleius

Apuleius was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He lived in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day M'Daourouch, Algeria.

Books by Lucius Apuleius

1 Books found
The Golden A s s

Authors: Lucius Apuleius

In Historical, Philosophy

By Stephanie McCarter

THE METAMORPHOSES OF APULEIUS, which Augustine of Hippo referred to as THE GOLDEN ASS, is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive in its entirety. The protagonist of the novel is Lucius. At the end of the novel, he is revealed to be from Madaurus, the hometown of Apuleius himself.