The quirkiest, zaniest, funniest book about Plato ever written by a scholar. Or anyone.

Meet Apuleius, Rome's all-time best-selling author (of The Golden Ass, 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.

An overview of Plato's life and work as seen 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 genius.

Aleksander Krawczuk's books on Greece and Rome have shaped three generations of antique lovers in Europe.

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.

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.

My personal favorite of all of Krawczuk's books. A feast.

Give yourself a blast. Pick up your copy today.