Apuleius of Madauros is a truly fascinating figure – to read a selection of texts about and by him click on the link. He wrote the novel, The Golden Ass, among a range of other works, not all of which survive.

To learn more about his life and read the whole Apology or his defence speech when tried for witchcraft you can go here. (It’s the work of a graduate seminar on the author and sometimes the information is not well foot noted, but it is still very useful.)