{"product_id":"apologia-florida-de-deo-socratis-by-apuleius-9780674997110","title":"Apologia. Florida. De Deo Socratis","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born circa 125 AD in Madauros to a politically prominent family and received an elite education in the provincial capital Carthage and at Athens, where he began a lifelong allegiance to Platonic philosophy. In the later 150s, he married Pudentilla of Oea, a wealthy widow, and seems to have enjoyed a distinguished public career in Africa and perhaps as an advocate in Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough Apuleius is best known for his picaresque novel \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses or The Golden Ass\u003c\/i\u003e (LCL 44, 453), he also wrote and declaimed on a wide variety of subjects. This edition contains the other surviving works of Apuleius that are considered genuine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eApologia\u003c\/i\u003e is a speech in which Apuleius defends himself against in-laws who had accused him of having used sinister means, including magic, to induce Pudentilla to marry him. The \u003ci\u003eFlorida\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of twenty-three excerpts from speeches by Apuleius. \u003ci\u003eDe Deo Socratis\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eOn Socrates' God\u003c\/i\u003e) locates Socrates' invisible guide and protector (\u003ci\u003edaimonion\u003c\/i\u003e) within the more general concept of \u003ci\u003edaimones\u003c\/i\u003e as forces intermediary between gods and humans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition, new to the Loeb Classical Library, offers fresh translations and texts based on the best critical editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423809552620,"sku":"9780674997110","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/61exXw62atL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774430623","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/apologia-florida-de-deo-socratis-by-apuleius-9780674997110","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}