dablink Apuleius should not be confused with Lucius Appuleius Saturninus , a Roman demagogue or with Pseudo Apuleius , an author. Infobox Writer for more information see Template Infobox Writer doc name Apuleius image Apuleius Project Gutenberg eText 12788.png imagesize 140px caption Sketch of Apuleius ... speaker notableworks The Golden Ass Apuleius sometimes called Lucius Apuleius c. 125 c. 180 was a Latin ... author Apuleius, the Roman emperor Septimius Severus, and St. Augustine , Encyclopedia Americana ... ass . Life Apuleius was born in Madaurus now M Daourouch , Algeria , a Roman colony in Numidia ... Gaetulia n. ref name Apuleius, Apology, 24 Apuleius, Apology , 24 ref Madaurus was the same Colonia ... him Lucius from the name of the hero of his novel. ref Julia Haig Gaisser, 2008 , The fortunes of Apuleius ... duumvir ref name Apuleius, Apology, 24 who bequeathed at his death the sum of nearly two millions of sesterces to his two sons. ref Apuleius, Apology , 23 ref Apuleius studied with a master at Carthage ... among other subjects. He subsequently went to Rome ref Apuleius, Florida , 17.4 ref to study Latin ... , burning up his inheritance while doing so. Apuleius was an initiate in several cults or Greco Roman ... classicsfacpub Apology as Prosecution The Trial of Apuleius ref and the cult of Isis . citation needed date November 2010 He was a priest of Aesculapius ref Apuleius, Florida 16.38 and 18.38 ref and, according ... . ref name Apuleius, Apology, 72 Apuleius, Apology , 72. ref On his way there he was taken ill ..., with whom he had been friends when he had studied in Athens. ref name Apuleius, Apology, 72 The mother ... Apuleius agreed to marry her. ref Apuleius, Apology , 73 ref Meanwhile Pontianus himself married the daughter ... uncle, Sicinius Aemilianus, to join him in impeaching Apuleius upon the charge that he had gained the affections of Pudentilla by charms and magic spells. ref Apuleius, Apology , 53, 66, 70 ... of Africa province Africa . ref Apuleius, Apology , 1, 59, 65 ref The accusation itself seems ... more details
12606 Apuleius is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1412.5968639 days 3.87 years . ref name JP Small body Database Browser cite web url http ssd.jpl.nasa.gov sbdb.cgi?sstr 12606 title JPL Small Body Database Browser accessdate 2008 05 24 publisher NASA ref The asteroid was discovered on September 24, 1960. References Reflist MinorPlanets Navigator 12605 1999 SK 12607 Alcaeus MinorPlanets Footer DEFAULTSORT Apuleius Category Main Belt asteroids Category Asteroids named for people Category Astronomical objects discovered in 1960 Beltasteroid stub fa it 12606 Apuleius hu 12606 Apuleius ... more details
Pseudo Apuleius refers to the author of a Herbarium Apuleii Platonici Herbarium or Herbarium Apuleii Platonici De herbarum virtutibus , also referred as Herbarium Apuleii Platonici it is a medical herbal of the 5th century. A 10th century manuscript of the work is in the Musee Meermanno Westreenianum, The Hague http collecties.meermanno.nl handschriften showmanu?id 1524&page 0&page size 40 . There are two 11th century versions of the herbal in colour at Oxford University http www.bodley.ox.ac.uk dept scwmss wmss medieval mss ashmole 1431.htm MS. Ashmole 1431 Ps. Apuleius, Herbal England, St. Augustine s abbey, Canterbury 11th century, c. 1070 1100 http www.bodley.ox.ac.uk dept scwmss wmss medieval mss bodl 130.htm MS. Bodl. 130 Ps. Apuleius, Dioscorides, Herbals extracts De virtutibus bestiarum in arte medicinae, in Latin and English England, Bury St. Edmunds 11th century, late See also Herbarium Apuleii Platonici Category History of medicine alt med stub ca Appuleu B rbar fr Sextus Apuleius Barbarus la Apuleius scriptor pseudonymus ... more details
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L asino also called L asino d oro English language English The Golden Ass is a satirical poem of eight chapters written by the Italian political scientist and writer Niccol Machiavelli in 1517 . A modernized version of Apuleius Apuleius The Golden Ass rather than a translation of it , it is written in terza rima . It also concerns the theme of metamorphosis , and contains autobiographical, grotesque, and allegorical episodes. External links http bepi1949.altervista.org biblio2 asino asino.htm L Asino complete text it icon DEFAULTSORT Golden Ass Category 1517 works Category Works by Niccol Machiavelli poetry stub br Works by Niccol Machiavelli ... more details
Image Apuleius Plantain v. 1484.jpg thumb center Plantago sp. from Herbarium Apuleii Platonici br used for headaches, stomach disorders, snakebite and scorpion stings center Herbarium Apuleii Platonici depicts 131 plants with their synonymy and instructions for their use in medicines and was first published in 1481 at Monte Cassino near Rome by Johannes Philippus de Lignamine , a Sicilian courtier and physician to Pope Sixtus IV . This was the first printed work on plants having numerous illustrations and is generally termed the first printed illustrated herbal . The history of the work has been lost with the passage of time, leading to endless speculation on the identity of the author. In all probability Apuleius Platonicus was a pseudonym of Lucius Apuleius of Madaurus Madaura in Numidia born AD124, while others writers refer to the him as Pseudo Apuleius . A study of the book shows some of the plants being endemism endemic to North Africa and lends support to the idea that the author was African. ref http plantaardigheden.nl aardig aardigheden kruidenboeken07.htm Plantaardigheden ref The images are controversial and while crude in appearance, have been seen by some critics as sophisticated though stylised Roman art. The diverse textures of the images led some scholars to claim that they are woodcuts, while others see evidence of metal cuts. The plates figure snakes and scorpions beside the plants when they are regarded as a cure for poisonous bites or stings. ref http members.aol.com arbexhibit erlhrb96.htm Early Printed Herbals ref The publication of this work inspired the zealous Mainz printer Peter Sch ffer to produce a similar work. He finished his illustrated Latin herbal which he called Herbarius Moguntinus in 1484, in time for the Easter Fair in Frankfurt . It sold well, prompting a second herbal, the Gart der Gesundheit , twelve months later. ref Medieval Gardens ... fr Herbarius du Pseudo Apul e la Herbarius pseudo Apuleius ... more details
Appuleius is the Roman naming conventions nomen of the Roman Appuleia gens gens Appuleia . It may refer to various members of that family, including Lucius Appuleius Saturninus , tribune of the plebs in 100 B.C. Any of several individuals named Sextus Appuleius . Apuleius Lucius Appuleius , author of The Golden Ass . For other persons named Appuleius , see Appuleia gens . See also Gens List of Roman gentes DEFAULTSORT Appuleius Category Ancient Roman families Category Prosopography of Ancient Rome ... more details
Donald Struan Robertson born in London 28 June 1885, died in Cambridge 5 October 1961 , was a classical scholar , particularly noted for his work on Apuleius , and for 22 years the Regius Professor of Greek Cambridge Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge . Life After education at Westminster School Robertson won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge and was placed in the first class of both parts of the Classical Tripos , graduating in 1908. Having won several prizes as an undergraduate, he competed for, and in 1909 won, a Trinity fellowship with a dissertation on the manuscript tradition of Apuleius s Apologia which he illustrated with stories from Apuleius s Golden Ass Metamorphoses . ref name DNB http www.oxforddnb.com view article 35777 DNB , accessed 19 October 2010 ref The whole of Robertson s academic life, from undergraduate to retirement, was spent at Trinity. Interrupted only by war service, where he was commissioned in the Royal Army Service Corps rising to the rank of major, Robertson lectured and supervised at Trinity until in 1928 he succeeded Alfred Chilton Pearson A. C. Pearson as the Regius Professor of Greek. ref name DNB , holding the chair until 1950. Robertson published his first book, A Handbook of Greek and Roman Architecture , in 1929 however, the work for which he is best remembered is his text of the Golden Ass Metamorphoses of Apuleius, published in the Collection Bud Bud series in three volumes between 1940 45. ref name DNB Robertson was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1940 ref http www.britac.ac.uk fellowship directory archive.asp?fellowsID 1909 British Academy fellowship entry ref he received honorary degrees from the universities of Durham, Glasgow, and Athens. ref name DNB By his first wife, who was killed during the Second World War , Robertson was the father of Martin Robertson Charles Martin Robertson , an eminent scholar of Greek vase painting. ref name DNB References reflist S start S aca Suc ... more details
William Adlington floruit fl. 1566 was one among the host of translators that made the Elizabethan era the Translation History golden age of translations . His Englishing of Apuleius 2nd century CE novel Metamorphoses , better known by its English title The Golden Ass 1566, reprinted 1571, 1582, 1596 ref Under the title The XI Bookes of the Golden Asse, Conteininge the Metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius London 1566 . this has been carefully proofread and is right ref was its first appearance in English and has been steadily reprinted into the 20th century. ref The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche is an excerpt from it. ref His prose is bold and delightful, though he does not stick as close to his source as a modern translator would be expected to do. The book was a favourite source of William Shakespeare Shakespeare s. ref Borrowings even in the tragedies were demonstrated in detail by John J. M. Tobin, in Kenneth Muir, ed. Shakespeare and the Classical World Shakespeare Survey 31 Cambridge University Press, 1978, and, for A Midsummer Night s Dream , by James A. S. McPeek, The Psyche Myth and A Midsummer Night s Dream Shakespeare Quarterly 23 .1 Winter 1972 69 79 . See also Robert H. F. Carver, The Protean Ass The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance Oxford Oxford University Press, 2007 . ref He addressed his dedication to Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex Thomas, Earl of Sussex , from University College, Oxford University College in Oxenford , but so little is known of him that he did not rate a Biography vita in the Dictionary of National Biography . A connection with the Adlington family of Cheshire is unproven. Notes reflist External links worldcat id id lccn n85 296831 gutenberg author id William Adlington name William Adlington DEFAULTSORT Adlington, William Category 16th century English people Category English translators ... more details
Gaius the Platonist 2nd century was a Greek or Roman philosopher, and a representative of Middle Platonism . Very little is known about him except that he was the teacher of Albinus philosopher Albinus , who is known to have published a now lost nine volume summary of Gaius lectures on Plato . ref Gerald Sandy, 1997 , The Greek World of Apuleius , page 215. BRILL ref He taught Platonism in the first half of the 2nd century, ref Gerald Sandy, 1997 , The Greek World of Apuleius , page 27. BRILL ref but almost nothing is known about his philosophical opinions. ref Arthur Hilary Armstrong ed. , 1970, The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy , page 15 ref It has been speculated that the On Plato and His Doctrine written by Apuleius may have been taken from the lectures of Gaius, but this assertion is now seen as dubious. ref John M. Dillon, 1993 , Alcinous The Handbook of Platonism , page xi. Oxford University Press ref It has also been thought that the anonymous commentary on the Theaetetus dialogue Theaetetus of Plato, which is partially extant, may have come from his school. ref Giovanni Reale, 1990 , A History of Ancient Philosophy The Schools of the Imperial Age , page 212. SUNY Press ref Porphyry philosopher Porphyry mentions that his works were read in the school of Plotinus . ref Porphyry, Life of Plotinus , 14 ref Notes reflist Category 2nd century philosophers Category Middle Platonists Category Roman era philosophers de Gaios ... more details
Claudius Maximus 2nd century AD was a Stoic philosopher and a teacher of Marcus Aurelius . ref http penelope.uchicago.edu Thayer E Roman Texts Historia Augusta Marcus Aurelius 1 .html Historia Augusta , Marcus Aurelius , 3. ref Marcus describes him as the perfect sage blockquote From Maximus I learned self government, and not to be led aside by anything and cheerfulness in all circumstances, as well as in illness and a just admixture in the moral character of sweetness and dignity, and to do what was set before me without complaining. I observed that everybody believed that he thought as he spoke, and that in all that he did he never had any bad intention and he never showed amazement and surprise, and was never in a hurry, and never put off doing a thing, nor was perplexed nor dejected, nor did he ever laugh to disguise his vexation, nor, on the other hand, was he ever passionate or suspicious. He was accustomed to do acts of beneficence, and was ready to forgive, and was free from all falsehood and he presented the appearance of a man who could not be diverted from right, rather than of a man who had been improved. I observed, too, that no man could ever think that he was despised by Maximus, or ever venture to think himself a better man. He had also the art of being humorous in an agreeable way. ref Marcus Aurelius, http www.gutenberg.org etext 15877 Meditations , i. 15 ref blockquote Marcus also mentions his death and that of his wife Secunda. ref Marcus Aurelius, http www.gutenberg.org etext 15877 Meditations , viii. 25 ref He may be the Claudius Maximus who was the proconsul of Africa Province Africa before whom Apuleius delivered a defence against a charge of magic c. 158 AD in which he calls him a most religious man. ref Apuleius, http classics.mit.edu Apuleius apol.html Apology . ref Notes reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Maximus, Claudius ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEAT ... more details
Hostius , was a Ancient Rome Roman epic poet , who probably flourished in the 2nd century BC. He was the author of a Bellum Histricum in at least seven books, of which only a few fragments remain. The poem is probably intended to celebrate the victory gained in 129 BC 129 by Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus consul and himself an annalist over the Illyria n Iapydes Appian , Illyrica , 10 Livy , epit. 59 . Hostius is supposed by some to be the doctus avus alluded to in Propertius iv. 20. 8 , the real name of Propertius s Cynthia, according to Apuleius Apologia x. and the scholiasi on Satires of Juvenal Juvenal vi. 7 , being Hostia perhaps Roscia . Fragments in F B hrens, Fragmenta poetarum Romanorum 1884 A Weichert, Poetarum Latinorum reliquiae 1830 . References 1911 Category Roman era poets Category 2nd century BC poets es Hostio hu Hostius pl Hostius ... more details
wiktionary metamorphoses Metamorphoses is a poem by Ovid. Metamorphoses can also refer to Literature The Golden Ass , by Lucius Apuleius Metamorphoses play Metamorphoses play , by Mary Zimmerman based on Ovid s work Metamorphoses , by Antoninus Liberalis Music M tamorphoses , 2000 album by Jean Michel Jarre Six Metamorphoses after Ovid , piece for solo oboe by Benjamin Britten Cinema Metamorphoses film Metamorphoses film , 1979 anime directed by Sanrio M tamorphoses 1946 film M tamorphoses 1946 film , directed by Charles Dekeukeleire See also Metamorphosis disambiguation Metamorphism disambig br Metamorfozo oberenno arzel cy Metamorphoses fr M tamorphoses is Metamorphoses la Metamorphoses ja pt Metamorphoses desambigua o ... more details
Zanobi da Strada 1312 in Strada in Chianti, near Florence 1361, Avignon , was an Italy Italian translator and correspondent of Petrarch . He was responsible for some manuscript rediscoveries in the Monte Cassino monastery library to which he had access as secretary to the diocesan bishop and where he lived from 1355 to 1357. Early Apuleius MS marginalia incl. mysterious spurcum additamentum at Met. 10.21.1 is in his hand. Clarify date April 2010 References Scribes and Scholars , L.D. Reynolds and N.G. Wilson, OUP 1968, p. 110 Italy writer stub DEFAULTSORT Strada, Zanobi Da Category Italian translators Category Petrarch Category 1312 births Category 1361 deaths de Zanobi da Strada it Zanobi da Strada ... more details
12607 Alcaeus is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1578.7876893 days 4.32 years . ref name JP Small body Database Browser cite web url http ssd.jpl.nasa.gov sbdb.cgi?sstr 12607 title JPL Small Body Database Browser accessdate 2008 05 24 publisher NASA ref The asteroid was discovered on September 24, 1960. Named after Alcaeus of Mytilene Alcaeus ca. 620 BC ca. 580 BC , who was a Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. His songs are as famous as those of Sappho. Many of his songs were translated into Latin and influenced Theocrites and Horace. References Reflist MinorPlanets Navigator 12606 Apuleius 12608 Aesop MinorPlanets Footer DEFAULTSORT Alcaeus Category Main Belt asteroids Category Asteroids named for people Category Astronomical objects discovered in 1960 Beltasteroid stub fa it 12607 Alcaeus hu 12607 Alcaeus ... more details
Infobox Saint name Saint Marcellus birth date third or fourth century death date third or fourth century feast day 7 October venerated in Roman Catholic Church image imagesize birth place Capua , Campania death place Capua , Campania beatified date beatified by canonized date pre congregation canonized by major shrine suppressed date 1969 issues Marcellus of Capua was a third or fourth century martyr ref Martyrologium Romanum Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2001 ISBN 88 209 7210 7 , p. 727 ref who was inserted in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in the thirteenth century, but when that calendar was revised in 1969, his feast was omitted, since the saint had no association with Rome . ref Calendarium Romanum Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1969 , p. 142 ref He is recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church , with 7 October as his feast day. ref Martyrologium Romanum Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2001 , p. 528. ref In the liturgical calendar, Saint Marcellus was associated with a supposed Saint Apuleius. They were said to have been converted to Christianity by the miracles of Saint Peter . According to the Roman Martyrology of the time, they suffered martyrdom soon after the deaths of Saints Peter and Paul and were buried near Rome. ref http www.newadvent.org cathen 13728a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia Sergius and Bacchus ref Apuleius is not mentioned in recent editions of the Roman Martyrology. References Reflist Category 4th century Christian martyr saints Category 4th century Romans ... more details
Infobox Writer for more information see Template Infobox Writer doc name Eros & Psyche Cover Art image Generic Eros and Psyche by Robert Bridges Cover Art.jpg Eros and Psyche is a Narrative poetry narrative poem with strong Romance genre romantic and Tragedy tragic themes first published in 1885 by Robert Bridges . ref Bridges, Robert. The Poems of Robert Bridges. London Oxford University Press, 1953. ref Overview Bridges Eros and Psyche retells the Cupid and Psyche Eros Cupid and Psyche myth first recorded by Apuleius Lucius Apuleius in his book The Golden Ass . The poem is divided into twelve canto s one for each of the twelve months of the year which gives the poem a certain, almost Pastoral Pastoral poetry pastoral feel. The number of stanza s in each canto equals the number of days in that month so the first canto March has 31 stanzas, the second canto April has 30 stanzas, and so on. Each stanza is a septet ie comprises exactly seven lines which follow the same Rhyme scheme end rhyming schema of a b a b c c b. ref Bridges, Robert. The Poems of Robert Bridges. London Oxford University Press, 1953. pp. 89 ff. ref External links http librivox.org newcatalog search.php?title eros&author robert bridges&status all&action Search Eros and Psyche Librivox audiobook recording http www.archive.org search.php?query creator 3A 22Bridges 2C 20Robert 20Seymour 2C 201844 1930 22 20eros Eros and Psyche from Archive.org Notes references Category Narrative poems Category 19th century poems Category 1880s poems ... more details
Giovanni Andrea Bussi 1417&ndash 1475 , also Giovan de Bussi or Joannes Andreae , was an Italy Italian Renaissance humanist and the Bishop of Aleria from 1469 . He was a major editor of classical texts and produced many incunabula r editiones principes first editions . In his hands the preface was expanded from its former role as a private letter to a patron, to become a public lecture, and at times a bully pulpit . ref Bussi s prefazioni have been collected and edited by M. Miglio, Prefazioni alle edizioni di Sweynheim e Pannartz, prototipografi romani , 1978. ref Bussi was a Platonist and a friend of Nicholas Cusanus and Johannes Bessarion , in whose philosophical circle he moved. From 1458 to the Cardinal s death in 1464 he had served Cusanus as a secretary at Rome , where he helped his master edit a ninth century manuscript of the Opuscula and other works of Apuleius . ref name gaisser Julia Haig Gaisser, The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass A Study in Transmission and Reception Princeton Princeton University Press, 2008 , pp. 160&ndash 62. The Apuleius was printed in 1469. ref From 1468 Bussi was the chief editor for the printing house of prototypographers Conrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz after they moved it from Subiaco, Italy Subiaco to Rome. ref name gaisser He also heaped praise on Cusanus and Bessarion and used his dedicatory preface to Apuleius to laud Bessarion s Defensio Platonis . ref Defense of Plato . ref He also incorporated an edition of Alcinous philosopher Alcinous translated by Pietro Balbi into his printing of Apuleius. The preface to this version elicited a correspondence with George of Trebizond and his son Andreas of Trebizond Andreas . Andreas attacked Bussi and Bessarion in a letter entitled Platonis Accusatio and Bussi directed a response to Andreas in the preface to his edition of Strabo . ref name gaisser The debate lasted until 1472. Cusanus, in his dialogue De non aliud of 1462, calls Bussi an expert on the Parmenides dialo ... more details
s Latin edition of Apuleius novel Metamorphoses, or the Golden Ass Gouda, Netherlands, 1650 . author Apuleius country Roman Empire language Latin language Latin genre Picaresque novel release date Late 2nd century AD The Metamorphoses of Apuleius , which Augustine of Hippo St. Augustine referred to as The Golden ... to be from M Daourouch Madaurus , ref The Golden Ass 11.27 ref the hometown of Apuleius himself ... is uncertain. It has variously been considered by scholars as a youthful work preceding Apuleius .... ref cite book author S. J. Harrison title Apuleius A Latin Sophist origyear 2000 edition revised ... 10 ref Apuleius adapted the story from a Greek language Greek original of which the author s name ... s text, attributed to Lucian of Samosata , a contemporary of Apuleius. Possibly the original ..., where he repeatedly makes love to the slave girl Fotis also spelled Photis ref Apuleius, Lucius ... time in Western world Western literature . Style Apuleius style is innovative, mannered, baroque ... of Apuleius style and it will become clear that English translators have not even tried ..., spiteful, lecherous, drunken, selfish, obstinate. Read again the merry and expressive doggerel of Apuleius .... Apuleius vocabulary is often eccentric and includes some archaism archaic words. However, S. J ... Essays on the Text and Interpretation of Apuleius Metamorphoses in Honour of Maaike Zimmerman series ... pages 59&ndash 67 chapter Some Textual Problems in Apuleius Metamorphoses ref Final book In the last ... . Oxford Oxford UP. ISBN 978 0 1 954055 6 p. xi ref Scholars note that both Apuleius came from the M Daourouch in Algeria, where Augustine would later study. Augustine refers to Apuleius and The Golden ... Man starring Mark Rylance as Lucius written by Peter Oswald after Apuleius novel, while performing ... story. Footnotes reflist 2 References Apuleius, Lucius Adlington, William Trans. 1996 . The Golden ... 1 Apuleius, Lucius Graves, Robert Trans. 1950 . The Golden Ass . Penguin Classics, Penguin Books Ltd ... more details
, e.g., Apuleius , while other Berbers remained rural, unlettered, and poor. Several Emperors ... 1958 at 20 22 brief view of ancient mime and pantomime. ref The African writer Apuleius c.125 ... Brett and Fentress, The Berbers Oxford Blackwell 1996 at 48 49, 50 ff. ref Lucius Apuleius Main Apuleius Lucius Apuleius c.125 c.185 , a Berber author of Africa Province, wrote using an innovative Latin style. Although often called Lucius Apuleius, only the name Apuleius is certain. ref H. J. Rose ... fortune to him and his brother. ref Jack Lindsay, Apuleius and his Work 5 28, at 5 6, in Apuleius .... Comparing learning to fine wine but with an opposite effect, Apuleius wrote, The more you drink and the stronger the draught, the better it is for the good of your soul. ref Apuleius quoted in Lindsay, Apuleius and his Work 5 28, at 6, in Apuleius, The Golder Ass Indiana Univ. 1960 . ref He also traveled ... friend Pontianus. Eventually Apuleius married Prudentilla, the older, wealthy widow of the house ... in Lindsay, Apuleius and his Work 5 28, at 11 12, in Apuleius, The Golder Ass Indiana Univ. 1960 . ref Yet debauched and greedy in laws this characterization by Apuleius wantonly claimed he had murdered Pontianus they did, however, prosecute Apuleius for using nefarius magic to gain his new wife s affections. At the trial in nearby Sabratha the Roman proconsul Claudius Maximus presided. Apuleius, then in his ... ref Apuleius, The Apology and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Greenwood Press 1970 , translated ... one of the great magicians of the world. ref Jack Lindsay , Apuleius and his Work 5 28, at 11, in Apuleius ..., no later than 161. Ibid. ref blockquote Apuleius and Prudentilla then moved to Carthage. There he continued ... 1958 at 118, 119. ref Image Apuleius Project Gutenberg eText 12788.png thumb 100px left Sketch of Apuleius ..., e.g., Apuleius, The Golden Ass Indiana University 1960 , translated by Jack Lindsay. ref ref Apuleius The Golden Ass Being the Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius London Wm. Heinemann Cambridge ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Zara is a titular see of Numidia in Africa , mentioned by the Itinerarium Antonini , 35, and by the Tabula Peutingerii . Ptolemy ref IV. 2. ref calls it Zaratha, and wrongly places it in Mauretania Caesariensis . It is probably the Zaratha of Apuleius ref Apologia, 23. ref . These two forms and the term Zaraitani found in an inscription ref Corp. Inscript. Lat. 4511. ref seem to indicate that the name Zara which appears on another inscription ref Corp. Inscript. 2532. ref must have lost a final dental letter. The ruins of Zara , called Henshir Zaria, to the south east of Setif in Algeria, crown an eminence which commands all the country on the left bank of the Oued Taourlatent , which the Arabs in the Middle Ages called Oued Zaraoua remains in the Middle Ages called Oued Zaraoua remains of a Byzantine citadel and of two Christian basilicas are yet visible. Two bishops of Zara are known Cresconius, present at the Conference of Carthage 411 , where he had as a rival the Donatist Rogatus and Adeodatus , exiled by Huneric after the Conference of Carthage 484 , and who died in exile. Notes references Wikisource1913CatholicEnc Zarai catholic Category Titular sees in Africa catholic stub de Zara ... more details
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Orphan date February 2009 File Wenceslas Hollar John Price 2.jpg right 300px thumb A contemporary engraving of John Price by Wenceslas Hollar John Price c1602 1676 was a classical scholar, publisher and collector of books. He was a Roman Catholic who described himself as Anglo Britannus . ref name ODNB Michael H. Crawford, Price, John c1602? 1676 , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 ref In 1635, in Paris, he published the Apologia of Apuleius . ref name ODNB From 1652 the Medicis employed him as their keeper of coins . He was also appointed professor of Greek at Pisa . ref name ODNB . In 1661 he moved, under patronage of Cardinal Francesco Barberini seniore Francesco Barberini , to Rome where he died in 1676. ref name ODNB References commonscat John Price classical scholar Reflist DEFAULTSORT Price, John Category 1602 births Category 1676 deaths Category English historians England bio stub ... more details
divine father s cult in Rome . Sextus Apuleius After Antony s death the position of flamen Divi Iulii in the city of Rome was assumed by a Sextus Apuleius. ref CIL 8.24583 ILS 8963 alternative spelling ... all four flamines maiores . The right dating might also be dependent on the correct identity of Apuleius ... and Praetor praetor urbanus Sextus Apuleius praetor urbanus Sextus Apuleius was meant here. ref ... , M nchen 1979, p. 470 ref A strong case has however been made for his son Sextus Apuleius consul, 29 BC Sextus Apuleius , who was augur and consul with Octavian in 29 BC. ref John Pollini, Ahenobarbi ... and fellow consul for this important office. In this case Apuleius could have inaugurated as early ... a homo novus of a Roman senatorial family. ref Since the augur Apuleius was probably alive until after ... for the augur Sextus Apuleius, as opposed to his father. Lucius Iunius Silanus Torquatus For urban Rome .... 41 CIL 6.37162 ref who like Apuleius was also related to the imperial family. Silanus had been made ... more details
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