Apuleius was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He was born in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day M'Daourouch, Algeria. He studied Platonism in Athens, travelled to Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries. The most famous incident in his life was when he was accused of using magic to gain the attentions of a wealthy widow. He declaimed and then distributed his own defense before the proconsul and a court of magistrates convened in Sabratha, near Oea. This is known as the Apologia.
Lucius Apuleius eli Apuleios oli roomalainen retoriikan opettaja, kirjailija ja keskiplatonilainen filosofi. Häneltä tunnetaan varhaisin kokonaisuudessaan säilynyt latinankielinen romaani Kultainen aasi (Metamorphoses), jonka arvioidaan valmistuneen vuonna 123.
Apuleyo, a veces llamado Lucio Apuleyo —si bien el praenomen Lucio se toma del protagonista de una de sus obras, El asno de oro—, fue el escritor romano más importante del siglo II, muy admirado tanto en vida como por la posteridad. Posiblemente un bereber muy romanizado, nació en Madaura, ciudad romana de Numidia en la frontera con Getulia, en la actualidad conocida como M'Daourouch. En su tiempo fue una zona relativamente alejada de los principales centros culturales de la latinidad, radicados en Italia, aunque su desarrollo urbano y económico permitieron que, hacia el siglo II, importantes intelectuales y políticos romanos procedieran de la zona.
Arabella Kenealy was a British writer, physician, anti-feminist and eugenicist. Kenealy became active in the fight against early feminism, coining the term "feminism is Masculism." As a scientist, she believed sex differences were vital to the continuation of the species and that feminism would lead to abolition of sex differences and dangerous competition between men and women harmful to both women and the long-term viability of the species, an argument she advanced in her book Feminism and Sex-Extinction.
Archer Butler Hulbert, FRGS, historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history, son of Rev. Calvin Butler Hulbert and Mary Elizabeth Woodward, was born in Bennington, Vermont. His father later became President of Middlebury College. Hulbert was married twice. On September 10, 1901 he married Mary Elizabeth Stacy, who died in 1920. On June 16, 1923 he married Dorothy Printup. He had two daughters by each wife.
Archer Taylor was one of America's "foremost specialists in American and European folklore", with a special interest in cultural history, literature, proverbs, riddles and bibliography.
Archibald Alexander was an American Presbyterian theologian and professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He served for 9 years as the President of Hampden–Sydney College in Virginia and for 39 years as Princeton Theological Seminary's first professor from 1812 to 1851.
Archibald Bower was a Scottish historian, now noted for his complicated and varying religious faith, and the accounts he gave of it, now considered by scholars to lack credibility.
Archibald Clavering Gunter was a British-American writer primarily known today for authoring the novel that the film A Florida Enchantment was based upon, and for his hand in popularizing "Casey at the Bat". He clipped the original publication of the poem from the San Francisco Examiner and passed it on to DeWolf Hopper, whose performances brought it fame.
Archibald Lampman was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in English."