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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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Asse: Add a description of this character.
- Lucius: The main character and narrator of the story
- Baker
- Fotis: A slave at Milo's house
- Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis
- Photis
- Milo
- Milos
- Cooke
- Beare
- Venus
- Baines
- Lamathus
- Thrasillus
- Myrmex
- Cupid
- Charite
- Byrrhena
- Socrates
Quotes edit
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“I was worried, very worried indeed, at the thought of sleeping with so lovely a woman: my great hairy legs and hard hooves pressed against her milk-and-honey skin - her dewy red lips kissed by my huge mouth with its ugly great teeth.”
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“This morning, you remember, you decided to kill the ass. He was always a lazy beast and a proper glutton, and now he has shammed lame and aided and abetted our prisoner's attempt at escape.”
Setting & Locations edit
- Thessaly
- Proserpina
- West Wind
- Jupiter
- Prosperine
- Paris
- Hypata
- Athens
- Providence
- Delphin
- Rome
- Cæsar
- Tartarus
- Lepolemus
- Sea
- Ceres
- Corinth
First Sentence edit
Now, what I propose in this Milesian discourse is to string together for you a series of different stories and to charm your ears, kind reader, with amusing gossip - always assuming that you are not too proud to look at an Egyptian book written with the sharpness of a pen from the Nile; and to make you marvel at a story of men's shapes and fortunes changed into other forms and then restored all over again.
Table of Contents edit
1. The Story of Aristomenes
2. At Milo's House
3. The Story of Thelyphron
4. The Festival of Laughter
5. Lucius is Transformed
6. Bandits' Cave
7. Cupid and Psyche (I)
8. Cupid and Psyche (II)
9. Cupid and Psyche (III)
10. Defeat of the Bandits
11. At the Stud-Farm
12. With the Eunuch Priests
13. At the Mill-House
14. With the Market-Gardener and the Centurion
15. At the Councillor's House
16. Under the Trainer
17. The Goddess Isis Intervenes
18. The Ass is Transformed
19. At the Bar
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Western canon according to Harold Bloom. (community list)
This book is in Penguin Classics. (publisher edition list)
This is book 997 of 1286 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Apuleius (Author)
Other Contributors:
- P. G. Walsh
- John Arthur Hanson
- Robert Graves (Translator)
- Jack Lindsay (Translator)
First Edition edit
Original Language: Latin
Publisher: C. Sweynheim & A. Pannartz
Country: Numidia (modern Algeria), Roman Empire
Publication Date: 2nd century AD
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 255
Publisher: C. Sweynheim & A. Pannartz
Country: Numidia (modern Algeria), Roman Empire
Publication Date: 2nd century AD
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 255
Classification edit
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- Dewey: 873.01
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