Metamorphoses (the Golden Ass), Volume I Books 1-6

Name: Metamorphoses (the Golden Ass), Volume I Books 1-6
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ISBN: 9780674990494

ISBN-10: 0674990498

ISBN-13: 9780674990494

Edition: 1990 (Revised)

Authors: Apuleius, J. Arthur Hanson

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In the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, also known as The Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic. The hero, Lucius, eager to experience the sensations of a bird, resorts to witchcraft but by an unfortunate pharmaceutical error finds himself transformed into an ass. He knows he can revert to his own body by eating rose-petals, but these prove singularly elusive; and the bulk of the work describes his adventures as an animal. He also retails many stories that he overheard, the most charming being that of Cupid and Psyche (beginning, in true fairy-tale fashion, 'Erant in quadam civitate rex et…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.37" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.594

J. Arthur Hanson was at the time of his death in 1985 Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University. His publications include Roman Theater-Temples.



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