A Meeting in Oea (Aleksander's Antiquities)

The quirkiest, zaniest, funniest book about Plato ever written by a scholar. Or anyone.

Meet Apuleius, Rome's all-time best-selling author (of The Golden Ass, no less!), a Platonic scholar, a part-time magician, and a dowry-hunter, as he works on his treatise on Plato at night and schemes to marry a rich African widow by day.

An overview of Plato's life and work as seen through the eyes of an engaging second-century AD Roman provincial, written in a lively, conversational style with occasiona...