The Golden Ass

About Apuleius

Apuleius (124170 CE) was an African novelist philosopher and rhetorician. Peter Singer an Australian philosopher is currently Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He is best known for Animal Liberation first published in 1975 and widely considered to be the founding statement of the animal rights movement; and for The Life You Can Save which led him to found the charity of the same name. His other books include Practical Ethics The Most Good You Can Do and the two books co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari- Radek. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the Worlds 100 Most Influential People. Ellen Finkelpearl is the Helen Chandler Garland Professor of Ancient Studies at Scripps College and a scholar of Apuleius. Anna and Varvara Kendel are twin sisters who graduated from the Stieglitz Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg and do illustrations together. Working with the best Russian publishers they have illustrated more than seven books and won prizes at international art competitions.