Summary of Apuleys
Lucius Apuleius (Latin Lucius Apuleius Platonicus, about 124, Madavra, North Africa – about 180) is an ancient Roman writer, a Platonist philosopher, a rhetorician. He wrote in Greek and Latin.
He was born on the border of Numidia and Getulia in the well-to-do family of a prominent African official (he repeatedly publicly called himself “Semi-Nomidian-half-hegel”). He studied first in Carthage, then in Athens, where he thoroughly acquainted with Greek literature, especially with the philosophy of Plato. “I drank in Athens and from other bowls: from a bowl of poetic fiction, from a light bowl of geometry, from a tart bowl of dialectic, but especially from the cup of all-embracing philosophy – this bottomless nectar bowl.” From here he moved to Rome, where he practiced for a time as an attorney. All his condition, inherited from his father, he spent, mainly, on travel, during which he was initiated into various mysteries.
On the way to Alexandria,
After this, Apuleius moved to Carthage, where he became the high priest of the province and twice awarded statues. He was an adherent of Isidic religion, intolerant of other beliefs (sarcastically depicted in the Metamorphoses of the priests of the Syrian goddess and Christians). “He was an ardent, tirelessly active and
The manuscripts refer to Apuleius as the Platonist philosopher from Madavra – Apuleius Madaurensis Platonicus, as he himself and later writers call himself.
Augustine Blessed often mentions Apuleius in his writings, calling him “the African, the most famous of our Africans” (qui nobis Afris Afer est notior). For Augustine, he is a magician whose miracles in the eyes of the opponents of Christianity surpass those created by Christ, and his “Metamorphosis” is a narrative of the truly experienced transformation of their author.
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