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Excerpt from The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius, of Medaura, Vol. 1 of 2: Reprinted From the Scarce Edition of 1709, Revised and Corrected Though I have not the happiness of challenging the honor of the first, yet your just claim to both the last, which are of far greater import, abundantly justify my address. Though the following treatise be in prose for the most part, yet it being a poetical production in the original and both its copies, i...

Der heute geläufige Titel des Romans »Der goldene Esel« (»Asinus aureus«) ist erst in der Spätantike (beim Theologen und Philosophen Augustinus) bezeugt. Ebenfalls ist der Roman unter dem Titel »Metamorphosen« (»Verwandlungen«) bekannt. Der Roman gehört - wie Petrons Satyricon - zu den bedeutendsten und gleichzeitig unterhaltsamsten Romanen der Weltliteratur. Verfasst wurde er um 160 n. Chr. von Apuleius aus Madauros (im heutigen Algerien). In...

Excerpt from The Very Pleasant and Delectable Tale of Cupid and Psyche: Translated From the LatinTers of Nereus are there singing their song, and Portunus, and Salacia, and the tiny charioteer of the dolphin, with a host of Tritons leaping through the billows. And one blows softly through his sounding sea-shell, another spreads a silken web against the sun, a third presents the mirror to the eyes of his mistress, while the others swim side by ...

Lavish hardcover reproduction of the ancient world's only surviving novel reprints a 1923 edition with William Adlington's highly readable 16th-century translation, eight color plates, and numerous black-and-white images by Jean de Bosschère.

The writings of Apileius in a 16th century translation

A bawdy picaresque Latin novel, written in the second century AD. The only Latin novel which has survived in its entirety. An imaginative, irreverent, and amusing work which relates the ludicrous adventures of one Lucius, who experiments in magic and is accidentally turned into an ass. In this guise he hears and sees many unusual things, until escaping from his predicament in a rather unexpected way. Within this frame story are found multiple ...

Lucius Apuleius (c. AD 123-c. AD 180), was a Romanised Berber who is best remembered for his bawdy picaresque Latin novel The Golden Ass, otherwise known as the Metamorphoses. It is the only Latin novel which has survived in its entirety, and is an imaginative, irreverent, and amusing work which relates the ludicrous adventures of one Lucius, who experiments in magic and is accidentally turned into an ass. In this guise he hears and sees many ...

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, ...

Lucius Apuleius (c. AD 123-c. AD 180), was a Romanised Berber who is best remembered for his bawdy picaresque Latin novel The Golden Ass, otherwise known as the Metamorphoses. It is the only Latin novel which has survived in its entirety, and is an imaginative, irreverent, and amusing work which relates the ludicrous adventures of one Lucius, who experiments in magic and is accidentally turned into an ass. In this guise he hears and sees many ...

This edition, the first with a full commentary in English to appear for eighty years, comprises a Latin text with facing translation, an introduction and a commentary.