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Apuleius between the Apology of Roman Religion and the Christian Cult Discredit. During the II century a.Chr., in its late Roman forms, the Egyptian religion coexisted with the new religious phenomenon of the Christian cult. The individuals had two options for the form and cult practice to choose as a matter of a strict existential nature, that rised the question of the historical development of the Egytpian religion too and consequently the one of the crisis and of the cause of its eminent end under the influence Christian missionarism. So far, the research in the history of religion field prediliged the phenomenologic approach to the historic and existential one, that made possible the idea of continuity and coexistence of the ancient Pagan religion along with the Christianism, this religious turning point being almost impossible to perceive.

Keywords: Apuleius, Apology, Metamorphoses, Christian cult, Roman religion, Tertullian, Tacitus.