Abstract
Roman literature, like Roman society in general, was dominated by males. From this men's world only a few women seem to stand out as individuals. Hence it is not surprising that whenever a Roman text pre? sents a marked female personality, the relevant data from the text are readily used by scholars to reconstruct her biography. This is certainly the case for Aemilia Pudentilla, the wife of the fa? mous orator and Platonic philosopher Apuleius of Madauros, who lived in Africa in the third quarter of the second century a.d. Between the lines of his extant speech Pro Se de Magia, commonly known as the Apology, Apuleius seems to provide much information about his wife. And in fact, we do not know, about any other woman from this pe? riod and this province, even approximately as much as we know about Pudentilla.
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