{"product_id":"apologia-florida-de-deo-socratis","title":"Apologia, Florida, De Deo Socratis","description":"\u003cp\u003eApuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born ca. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough Apuleius is best known for his picaresque novel \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses or \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe 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. \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition, new to the Loeb Classical Library, offers fresh translations and texts based on the best critical editions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christopher P. Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42849048952893,"sku":"9780674997110","price":46.76,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780674997110_6cef7a94-38f3-4b67-88aa-0766e7124be1.jpg?v=1766991958","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/apologia-florida-de-deo-socratis","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}