A Meeting in Oea

The quirkiest, zaniest, funniest - and wisest - 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.

This insightful overview of Plato's life and work as seen through the eyes of an engaging second-century AD Roman provincial, is written in a lively, conversational style with occasional flashes of literary beauty. It offers great insights into Plato the man, the talented writer, the aspiring politician who never got any traction, and into his vision of society and politics.

Aleksander Krawczuk's books on ancient Greece and Rome have shaped three generations of antique lovers in Eastern Europe.