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Golden Ass

Name: Golden Ass
Brand: Indiana University Press
SKU: 04870062
Price: 19.19 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Jack Lindsay
ISBN: 9780253200365

Jack Lindsay

Apuleius

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04870062

Publishers Indiana University Press

The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only... Full description

Libristo code: 04870062

47 b

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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.