Apuleius was a respected philosophus Platonicus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Until the middle of last century, he attracted the attention of scholars

Introduction. Manuscripts and transmission ; Genre, doctrine, and dating ; By Apuleius? ; The Expositio and the Apuleian corpus ; Audience and purpose ; Apuleiu

Argues that invisibility is a central motif in Apuleius' Metamorphoses, presenting a new interpretation of this Latin masterpiece.

Apuleius of Madauros, writing in the latter half of the second century CE in Roman North Africa, is best known to us today for his Latin fiction, the Metamorpho

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