The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura

by Apuleius

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Contents

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. The Apologia
4. The exordium to a discourse delivered in a town through which Apuleius passes in the course of a journey
5. Man's sight compared with that of the eagle
6. The story of Marsyas and his challenge to Apollo
7. The piper Antigenidas
8. Fragment from the opening of a discourse delivered in a theatre
9. India and the Gymnosophists
10. On Alexander and false philosophers
11. A eulogy of the proconsul of Africa
12. A defence of himself against his critics and a laudation of the proconsul Severianus
13. On Providence and its marvels
14. A comparison between those who lack wealth and those who lack virtue
15. On the Parrot
16. A comparison between the eloquence of the philosopher and the song of birds
17. On Crates the Cynic
18. Of the isle of Samos and Pythagoras
19. An oration of thanks to Aemilianus Strabo and the senate of Carthage for decreeing a statue in his honour
20. Fragment of a panegyric on Scipio Orfitus
21. A discourse pronounced before the Carthaginians, incidentally treating of Thales and Protagoras
22. A story of the physician Asclepiades
23. A panegyric on his own talents
24. An excuse for delay caused by social duties
25. On the Virtues of Crates
26. On the uncertainty of fortune
27. An improvisation
28. The fable of the fox and the crow
29. A transition from Greek to Latin
30. The Apologia
31. The Florida

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