![]() ![]() But soon afterwards he left Oea for Carthage, where he lived out his life teaching rhetoric and philosophy and gaining enough fame that a statue of him was erected in his honor. He also charged him, among other things, with being obsessed with his mirror and having long hair like a gigolo ! Apuleius successfully defended himself in court in his surviving Apologia, a tour de force of rhetoric and wit. But the brother of the man previously betrothed to Pudentilla sued Apuleius, accusing him of winning his new wife’s love through magic. During these travels, while he was staying at Oea (modern Tripoli in Libya) in c.156 CE, a student friend convinced Apuleius to marry his widowed mother, Pudentilla, in order to protect her wealth. ![]() As a young man, he squandered his inheritance touring Egypt and Asia Minor. ![]() Lucius Apuleius (c.125 CE-after 170CE) was born in North Africa (in Maudaura, or modern Mdaurusch, Algeria) to prosperous Berber parents and educated at Carthage, Athens (where he studied Platonic philosophy), and Rome. ![]()
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