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The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the kindness of the Goddess Isis.
Simultaneously a blend of romantic adventure, fable, and religious testament, the Golden Ass is one of the truly seminal books of European Literature, of intrinsic interest as a novel in its own right, and one of the earliest examples of the picaresque. It includes as its famous centrepiece the myth of Cupid and Psyche, the search of the human soul for union with the divine, and has been the inspiration for numerous creative works of literature and art since the Renaissance.
- This new translation is at once faithful to the meaning of the Latin, whilst reproducing all the exuberant gaiety of the original.
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Fiction, Classical Mythology, Metamorphosis, Latin fiction, Translations into English, Translations into Italian, Translations into Spanish, Translations into French, Isis (Egyptian deity), Metamorphosis in literature, Latin literature, Translations into Russian, Mythology, Classical, in literature, Translations into German, History and criticism, Medieval and modern Latin literature, French literature, Translations from Latin, Latin American literature, Humor (Fiction), Mythology, Classical, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, Latin language materials, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Greek fiction, Trans. into Eng, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, fantasy, general, Latin literature, translations into english, Criticism and interpretation, Romans, Illustraties, Latijn, Klassieke oudheid, Mythology, classical--fiction, Metamorphosis--fiction, Pa6209.m3 r45 2007, 873/.01, Metamorphosis in fiction, open_syllabus_project, World history, Egypt, fiction, Cupid and Psyche (Tale), Metamorphoses (Apuleius)People
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The transformations of Lucius, otherwise known as the golden ass
2009, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Der goldene Esel. Metamorphosen 11.
July 1, 1998, Artemis & Winkler
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The golden ass: being the Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius
1924, Heinemann, Macmillan Co.
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The metamorphosis, or golden ass, and philosophical works, of Apuleius [A. on the God of Socrates; A. on the habitude of the doctrines of Plato]
1822, Sold by R. Triphook and T. Rodd
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [l]-lv) and index.
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To the Right Honourable and Mighty Lord, THOMAS EARLE OF SUSSEX, Viscount Fitzwalter, Lord of Egremont and of Burnell, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, Iustice of the forrests and Chases from Trent Southward; Captain of the Gentleman Pensioners of the House of the QUEENE our Soveraigne Lady.
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