A Meeting in Oea or Concerning Plato

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The quirkiest zaniest funniest book about Plato ever written by a scholar. Or anyone.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Meet Apuleius Rome's all-time best-selling author (of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Golden Ass </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And see Plato's life and work through the eyes of an engaging second-century AD Roman provincial written in a lively conversational style with occasional--but not too overwhelming--flashes of literary wonder.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Aleksander Krawczuk's books on Greece and Rome have shaped three generations of antique lovers in Europe.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They have been huge best-sellers because of their unassuming style: reading him feels like taking part in a pleasant chat after a nice dinner by the fireside with a glass of sherry in hand.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>His topics are important and may at first seem forbidding but the good professor finds a way to talk about them in an unassuming way without dumbing them down in the process.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is my personal favorite of all of Krawczuk's books. What a feast.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Give yourself a blast. Pick up your copy today.</strong></p>