Latest posts tagged with #Apuleius on Bluesky
What happens when curiosity outruns wisdom?
Lucius Apuleius’ 2nd-century masterpiece, The Golden Ass, explores the human condition trapped in the animalistic. A journey from accidental donkey to spiritual seeker.
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#APULEIUS' 'THE GOLDEN ASS' ON THE LIGHT OF THE GODDESSES
"I am she that is the natural mother of all things, mistresse and governesse of all the Elements, the initiall progeny of worlds, chiefe of powers divine, Queene of heaven! the principal of the Gods celestiall, the light of the goddesses:
#classicalreception @ BMCR: Joseph Dalbera, Les Métamorphoses d’Apulée à travers les lieux et les âges. Réceptions, réécritures, héritages bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.07... (by Christiane Reitz) #Apuleius
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𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹’𝘀 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁𝘀
The platform scholarlyeditions.brill.com supports work across multiple corpora—including #JacobyOnline, #SupplementumEpigraphicumGraecum, texts by #GregoryOfNyssa, #Apuleius, and more. An indispensable tool for classicists.
#translator (although some would say ‘re-writer’) of #Maupassant, #EdgarAllenPoe, #Turgenev, #MikaWaltari, and a dab of #Sophocles, #Apuleius, etc., An all-round linguist with, in addition to the languages implied above, #German, #Livonian, #Mordvin, #Swedish, and varying degrees of...
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Isis presumably with Serapis, 1stC BC-1stC AD, British Museum
The human soul is a kind of #daimon.
- #Apuleius, ‘The God of #Socrates’
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge #Apuleius #GoldenAss #Metamorphosis
“The person is sane, moreover, who knows what insanity is; and, certainly, insanity cannot know itself any more than blindness can see itself.”
Porro sanus est, qui scit quid sit insania, quippe insania scire se non potest, non magis quam caecitas se videre #Apuleius
#Lektürentagebuch 31/7/24: was ich mit #WaltWhitmann, #Bobkowski, #Apuleius und #Henschel über #Krieg und #Lust lesend lernte.
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#Lektürentagebuch 31/7/24: was ich mit #WaltWhitmann, #Bobkowski, #Apuleius und #Henschel über #Krieg und #Lust lesend lernte.
flaneurgedichte.blogspot.com/2024/07/lekt...
