Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the technics and literary sources used by Apuleius to invent the untrue autobiographic speech of Tlepoleme seeking to pass himself off as a robber. Tlepoleme the Iyer takes his inspiration from Odysseus the Iyer and from the epic literature. He paints an ambiguous picture of a robber who is both heroic and monstruous and so doing is consistent with the novel as a whole who shows the same dual picture of the robbers, heroes for themselves, monsters for theirs victims. Since the audience and the reader are deceived by this speech, writed with the same rules of invention th an the novel as a whole, what conclusions reader can draw for Lucius’ autobiography?
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