Apologia Florida De Deo Socratis Apuleius Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Essays And Literary Reference

Oratory And Philosophy From A Latin Novelist Apuleius One Of The Great Stylists Literature Was Born Ca Ad 125 In Madauros To Politically Prominent Family Received An Elite Education Provincial Capital Carthage At Athens Where He Began Lifelong Allegiance Platonic Later 150S Married Pudentilla Oea Wealthy Widow Seems Have Enjoyed Distinguished Public Career Africa Perhaps As Advocate Rome Although Is Best Known For His Picaresque Novel Metamorphoses Or Golden Ass (Lcl 44 453) Also Wrote Declaimed On Wide Variety Subjects This Edition Contains Other Surviving Works That Are Considered Genuine Apologia Speech Delivered Probably 158 59 Which Defends Himself Against In-Laws Who Had Accused Him Having Used Sinister Means Including Magic Induce Marry Florida Collection Twenty-Three Excerpts Speeches By All Them Title Refers Either Their Florid Style Resemblance Anthology Both De Deo Socratis (On Socrates’ God) Takes Form Addressed Cultured Nonspecialist Latin-Speaking Audience Locates Invisible Guide Protector (Daimonion) Within More General Concept Daimones Forces Intermediary Between Gods Humans Loeb Classical Library Three Volumes Σελίδες: 448 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0619 Διαστάσεις: 10 8X10 8Cm