Allgemein
Augustine
on Apuleius
In 411-12 AD, Augustine went through an elaborate
correspondence with two distinguished citizens, Volusianus (the
more distinguished) and Marcellinus (in Africa as imperial
representative in the matter of the Donatists). In the course
of a discussion of the merits of Christianity, Volusianus or
his friends brought up the cases, comparable in their eyes to
Christ, of Apollonius and Apuleius. Several texts from that
exchange are relevant. The irony is that they show that
Apuleius had his defenders in Africa, 250 years after his
death, who were quite sure that he was a magician.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/apuleius/augapul.html
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