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Apuleius
Apuleius
c. 124 CE–c. 170 CE · Carthage
Apuleius was a Latin author and Platonist philosopher of the 2nd century CE, born in North Africa and connected with Carthage. He is best known for 'The Golden Ass' (the 'Metamorphoses'), the only Latin novel to survive complete, a witty and fantastical tale that includes the famous story of Cupid and Psyche; he also wrote a courtroom speech defending himself against a charge of magic and several philosophical works. He was a celebrated public speaker of his day.
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CarthageAfrica Proconsularis
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
About Carthage
Carthage, near modern Tunis on the coast of Tunisia, was the Phoenician-founded power destroyed by Rome in 146 BC at the end of the Third Punic War and later refounded as a Roman colony. The historian Polybius witnessed and recorded its final destruction. Under Rome, Carthage was the milieu of the Latin author and Middle Platonist Apuleius, who studied and lectured there.
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Apuleius’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.