Apology.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 4908 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 246 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2001 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251799438 |
Classic bilingual collection. Originally from Madaure (near present-day Constantine), Apuleius was born around 125 AD. After spending time in Rome, he went to Athens where he enjoyed the lectures of philosophers while being initiated into the Mysteries. From this stay in Athens, he gained an incomparable knowledge of the Greek language. Back in Carthage, he led a public life as a rhetorician and lecturer and was chosen as a priest of the imperial cult. Best known in literature for his hilarious Golden Donkey, he is also the author of an Apology, in which he defends himself against the accusations of witchcraft to which he was subjected. How, on his way to Alexandria, Apuleius met up with a former classmate from Athens, how the latter persuaded him to marry his mother, the wealthy widow Pudentilla, and how this marriage finally earned him an accusation of magic from the people whose plans he was disrupting – he had bewitched the widow to seize her fortune: this is what the Apology tells. The trial took place under Antoninus, between 148 and 161. His plea, written afterward, is a fascinating document for the history of magic and is also an almost unique example of judicial eloquence under the Roman Empire.
Classic bilingual collection. Originally from Madaure (near present-day Constantine), Apuleius was born around 125 AD. After spending time in Rome, he went to Athens where he enjoyed the lectures of philosophers while being initiated into the Mysteries. From this stay in Athens, he gained an incomparable knowledge of the Greek language. Back in Carthage, he led a public life as a rhetorician and lecturer and was chosen as a priest of the imperial cult. Best known in literature for his hilarious Golden Donkey, he is also the author of an Apology, in which he defends himself against the accusations of witchcraft to which he was subjected. How, on his way to Alexandria, Apuleius met up with a former classmate from Athens, how the latter persuaded him to marry his mother, the wealthy widow Pudentilla, and how this marriage finally earned him an accusation of magic from the people whose plans he was disrupting – he had bewitched the widow to seize her fortune: this is what the Apology tells. The trial took place under Antoninus, between 148 and 161. His plea, written afterward, is a fascinating document for the history of magic and is also an almost unique example of judicial eloquence under the Roman Empire.