Apuleius
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Apuleius, also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis, was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He was born in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city o
Late antique ceiling painting c. 330, possibly of Apuleius but also possibly of Lactantius
Imagined portrait of Apuleius on a medallion of the 4th century.
Frontispiece from the Bohn's Classical Library edition of The Works of Apuleius: a portrait of Apuleius flanked by Pamphile changing into an owl and the Golden Ass
Apuleii Opera omnia (1621)
Augustine of Hippo
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Augustine of Hippo, also well-known as Saint Augustine, was a Christian theologian and philosopher from Thagaste, Numidia Cirtensis and the Bishop of Hippo Regius. He is generally regarded as one of t
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…in Numidia on the North African coast bordering Gaetulia, and he described himself as "half-Numidian half-Gaetulian." Madauros, in whose university Augustine of Hippo later received his early education, was located well away from the Romanized coast, but nonetheless contains some pristine Roman ruins. Apuleius's…
Saint Augustin by Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1645
Saint Augustine Taken to School by Saint Monica, by Niccolò di Pietro, 1413–15
Saint Augustine and his mother, Saint Monica (1846) by Ary Scheffer
The Conversion of St. Augustine by Fra Angelico