OL658250W Page_number_confidence 81.47 Pages 342 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20200222103455 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 968 Scandate 20200220143034 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780192824929 Tts_version 3.I’ve been looking at asses.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages l-lv) and indexĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:00:23 Associated-names Walsh, P. 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."-Jacket
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. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the kindness of the Goddess Isis. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass. "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.
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