Golden Ass

Name: Golden Ass
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ISBN: 9780192838889

ISBN-10: 0192838881

ISBN-13: 9780192838889

Edition: 1995

Authors: Apuleius, P. G. Walsh

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The Goden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survives on its entirety. It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic result 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. Blending 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. This new translation is at once faithful to the…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction


Select Bibliography



Journey to Hypata: the Exemplar of Socrates



Further Warnings at Byrrhena's: The, Exemplar of Thelyphron



the Festival of Laughter: Lucius Becomes an Ass



at the Bandits' Hideout. Cupid and Psyche (i)



Cupid and Psyche (continued)



Cupid and Psyche (continued): the Frustrated Escape



Charite (and Lucius) Rescued: Further Ordeals of Lucius



Charite's Revenge and Death: Lucius with the Catamite Priests



with the Priests, the Baker, the Market-Gardener: Four Tales of Cuckolding



Tales of Wicked Women: Pleasant Life with the Cooks Leads to Public Humiliation



Salvation, and Conversion to Isis


Explanatory Notes


Index and Glossary of Names