Author: ApuleiusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Metamorphoses
Author: ApuleiusThe Golden Ass
Author: ApuleiusPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014190450X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of the many adventures of a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to be transformed into a donkey. The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and Lucius is initiated into her cult. Apuleius' enchanting story has inspired generations of writers such as Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats with its dazzling combination of allegory, satire, bawdiness and sheer exuberance, and remains the most continuously and accessibly amusing book to have survived from Classical antiquity.
The Golden Ass
Author: ApuleiusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Metamorphoses
Author: Apuleius... The Golden Ass
Author: ApuleiusThe Golden Asse
Author: ApuleiusPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Golden Asse" by Apuleius. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Golden Ass
Author: ApuleiusThe Golden Ass
Author: Lucius ApuleiusPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Apuleius (c. 125-c. 180) was a student of Platonist philosophy and Latin prose writer who produced the novel "Metamorphoses", more popularly known as "The Golden Ass". This work is the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety. Adapted from an earlier Greek story, "The Golden Ass" tells of the adventures of Lucius, a young man who is obsessed with magic. In attempting to perform a spell, Lucius inadvertently transforms himself into an ass. His long and arduous journey is ornately illustrated by Apuleius' witty, imaginative, and often explicit language, in a series of subplots that carry the reader through to Lucius' salvation by the goddess Isis. These include the stories of Cupid and Psyche, Aristomenes, Thelyphron and others. The novel reflects Apuleius' own fascination with magic and the occult, and although comical at times, contains very serious messages about impiety towards the gods, and the risks of tampering with the supernatural.
The Metamorphosis
Author: ApuleiusThe Golden Ass
Author: ApuleiusPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290854528
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.