Golden Ass

Name: Golden Ass
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ISBN: 9780253200365

ISBN-10: 0253200369

ISBN-13: 9780253200365

Edition: 1962

Authors: Apuleius, Jack Lindsay

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Apuleius's Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel--the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived 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. Aftersuffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately returned to 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 works of European literature, of intrinsic interest asa novel in its own right, and one of the earliest examples of the picaresque. This new translation is at once…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 1962
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 1/22/1962
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.594



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