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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, beside the Lake of Tunis near modern Tunis in Tunisia, was founded by Phoenician settlers (tradition names Queen Dido as founder). It grew into a Mediterranean power until Rome destroyed it in 146 BCE at the end of the Third Punic War, a sack the historian Polybius witnessed. Julius Caesar refounded it, and it became the centre of the Roman province of Africa, where Apuleius studied. Carthage was a major centre of Latin Christianity: Tertullian wrote there, Cyprian was its bishop until his martyrdom in 258, its councils such as that of 397 shaped the Western church, and the Donatist controversy divided it. Vandals, Byzantines and finally, in 698, Umayyad forces took the city.
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