Saturday, August 02, 2008

C.S. Lewis' Apuleius connexion

Although most of us know Lucius Apuleius only through his novel Metamorphoses (even better known as his Golden Ass}, C.S. Lewis seems to have been influenced most strongly by his other works such as De Deo Socratis and Florida.

http://www.apaclassics.org/AnnualMeeting/06mtg/abstracts/SICK.pdf


http://forumromanum.org/literature/deo_socratis.html
text of De Deo Socratis

text of Florida :
http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/florida.html

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/apuleius/
: about his apology

The Golden Asse, Adlington's 1566 Englishing: http://books.eserver.org/fiction/apuleius/

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