Apuleius of Madauros (c.AD 120-180), known to us today for his Latin fiction, the Metamorphoses, was also a Platonic philosopher. This book is the first explora

Apuleius was a respected philosophus Platonicus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Until the middle of last century, he attracted the attention of scholars

Discusses the centrality of dreams and the dreamworld to Apuleius' Metamorphoses, and uses the dreamworld of the work to investigate second-century beliefs abou

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