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Apuleius (c. 125 — c. 180 CE)

Apuleius was a Roman-born Latin author, Platonist philosopher, and rhetorician of Berber origin who is best known for his Latin novel, The Golden Ass. Apuleius was born in Madaura, which is now part of modern-day Algeria. He was born into a wealthy and influential family, which enabled him to receive a good education in both Latin and Greek literature and rhetoric. After studying in Carthage and Athens, Apuleius returned to his home in North Africa. Here he began practicing rhetoric and philosophy, and soon became a popular and successful teacher and speaker.

Accipe candidissime lector in asinum aurem Lucii Apulei commentaria. Paris, impressus Jean Philippe expensis Ludwig Hornken [et] Gottfried Hittorp, 1512 | | | | | |

L’amour de Cupido et de Psiche. Paris, veuve Denis Janot [=Jeanne de Marnef], 1546

Apologia. Isaacus Casaubonus recensuit et castigationum libellum adjecit. [Genève], Jérôme Commelin, 1594 | | | | |

Apologia. Hanau, 1607 |

Apologia. Parijs, 1635 |

Apuleius cum commento Philippi Beroaldi. 1510 |

Apuleius cum commento Philippi Beroaldi et figuris noviter additis. Venezia, in aedibus Giovanni Tacuino, 1516 |

Asinus aureus, sive Metamorphosis. Vita Apulei. Bologna, Benedictus Hectoris, 1 August 1500

Commentarii a Philippo Beroaldo conditi in Asinum aureum Lucii Apuleii. Venezia, per Simone Bevilacqua, 1501

Commentarii a Philippo Beroaldo conditi in Asinum aureum Lucii Apulej. Venezia, per Bartolomeo Zani, 1504

De medicaminibus herbarum. 1537

De viribus herbarum. Paris, 1543

De elf boecken van Lucius Apuleius handelende van den gulden esel. Antwerpen, 1600

Die Fabel der Psyche. [Köln], Franciscus Hogenbergus excudebat, 1575

Floridorum libri quattuor de dogmate platonis li.vnus de philosophia li. unus. In quibus restituta grecanica quedam, quae in reliquis fere omnibus exemplaribus desyderantur. [Strasbourg, ex aedibus Matthias Schürer, 1516] | | | |

Der Gülden Esel : Ein schöne History von dem Esel Luciani, Wie Lucius durch seinen vorwitz verhofft ein Vogel zu werden, aber durch Irrung der Magd Palestra, in einen Esel verwandelt wird, und ein gantz Jahr viel Angst, Noth und Leydens in solcher Gestalt. Magdeburg, Johann Francke, 1620

Historia del asno de oro. Antwerpen, en casa de Joannes Steelsius por Hans de Laet, 1551

Ein hubsche history von Lucius apuleius in gestalt eins esels verwandelt und verkert ward und lenger wann ein gantzes jar dar in pleybe. [Strasbourg, durch Johann Knobloch (I), 1509] | | |

Metamorphoseon. Leiden, 1786

Metamorphoseos, sive Lusus asini libri XI. Floridorum IIII. De deo Socratis I. De philosophia I. Asclepius Trismegisti dialogus eodem Apuleio interprete Isagogicus liber Platonicae philosophiae per Alcinum philosophum Graece impressus. Venezia, in aedibus haer. Aldo I Manuzio & Andrea I Torresano, 1521

Metamorphoseon sive De asino aureo libri XI. Floridorum libri IIII. De deo Socratis libellus. Apologiae libri II. Trismegisti dialogus. De mundo sive De cosmographia liber I.Trismegisti dialogus. Firenze, per haer. Filippo I Giunta, 1522

Metamorphoseos. Paris, 1536

Metamorphoseos libri XI. Gouda, 1650 | |

Opera. Roma, In domo Petri de Maximis, [Konrad Sweynheym, and Arnoldus Pannartz], 28 February 1469

Opera. Vicenza, Henricus de Sancto Ursio Zenus, 9 August 1488

Opera. Venezia, Philippus Pincius, 30 April 1493

Opera. Paris, 1522

Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia: & in primis de asino aureo libri XI, cum commentariis, ab innumeris mendis nunc demum vindicati: adiecto indice. Basel, per Heinrich aus Basel Petri, [1560] | | |

Opera omnia quae exstant, emendata et aucta, cum notis. Accedit nunc primum, inter alia, liber peri hermeneias. Leiden, ex officina Plantiniana apud Franciscus I Raphelengius, 1588 | | | | | | |

Opera omnia. Leiden, 1594

Opera quae quidem extant omnia. In primis vero de asino aureo libri XI. Cum eruditissimis commentariis: et in l. Apuleii opera omnia quaestionibus & conjecturis: nec non aliorum doctiss. Virorum in eundem emendationibus. Basel, per Sebastian Henricpetri, [1597]

Opera omnia quae exstant. In quibus post omnes omnium aeditiones hoc praestitum est, ut auctor ipse auctus & restitutus prodeat. [Leiden], ex officina Plantiniana apud Christophorus Raphelengius, 1600 |

Opera. Basel, 1606

Opera omnia. Leiden, 1610 | |

Opera. Lyon, 1614

Opera. Basel, 1620 | |

Opera omnia. Frankfurt, 1621 | |

Opera omnia. Leiden, J Maire, 1623 | | |

[Opera] Amsterdam, WJ Blaeu, 1624 |

Opera. 1688 | | |

Opera. 1778 |

Opera. 1778

Philosophi platonici quae quidem extare novimvus monimenta. Basel, excudebat Heinrich aus Basel Petri, [1533] |

Ain schön lieblich auch kurtzweylig gedichte von ainem gulden esel mit schoenen figuren zougericht grundtlich verdeutscht. Augsburg, excudebat Alexander Weißenhorn (I), 1538 |

Sehr liebliches, kurtzweiliges künstliches und nützliches Gedicht Lucii Apuleii, deß Fürtrefflichen, Weitberüm[m]ten, alten Philosophi unnd Oratoris, : Von seiner auß einem Menschen, in einen Vernünfftigen Esel. Frankfurt am Main, Zacharias Palthenius, 1605

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