Апулей Люций (ок. 124 - ок. 180 н. э.) is the Roman writer and advocate of period of decline of the Roman empire, prominent author of the time. By birth from North Africa. It was a famous speaker and priest in Карфагене.The real edition was entered by most known from the reaching to us ancient novels of Апулея of "Metamorphosis, or the Gold donkey". Young Greek by name Луций, traveling on Thessaly, meets with a mighty sorceress. Hero oversees after transformations of sorceress and tries to grow into a bird. But there is an error: Луций becomes a donkey, saving human reason here. In character a donkey a hero has the opportunity to look after the most intimate stages of human life. Roman Апулея, pierced by erotic, religious and mystic reasons, brought to the creator world glory that does not grow dim here already almost two thousand years.