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Golden Ass, The Paperback – Illustrated, 20 August 1998

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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 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.

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Publisher : Penguin; 3rd edition (20 August 1998)
Language : English
Paperback : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 0140435905
ISBN-13 : 978-0140435900
Dimensions : 12.88 x 1.91 x 19.71 cm

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Lucius Apuleius (2nd Century AD) North African fubulist, who Latinized the Greek myths and legends. He travelled widely, visiting Italy, Asia &c and was there initiated into numerous religious mysteries. The knowledge which he thus acquired of the priestly fraternities he drew on for his Golden Ass.

E.J. Kenney is Emeritus Kennedy Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge. His publications include a critical edition of Ovid's amatory works. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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A lovely translation perhaps not as good as the penguin edition but the illustrations more than ...

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A lovely translation perhaps not as good as the penguin edition but the illustrations more than make up for that. This is one of the best books ever written and being one the only surviving 'novel' from the period everyone should read it as many of the stories and the framing devices ae still ued in today's literature. It also forms the basis for Boccaccio's Decameron and is similar in structure to 1001 nights.

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A great romp and great translation

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This is 2nd century AD sex and drugs and rock'n'roll.

I'll echo the previous reviews by saying that this is great fun and a really engaging read. The notes are excellent too which really helps in a work like this, drawing out many allusions.

Poetry is often said to be lost in translation but the translator has captured a real sense of the Latin while retaining the fluency of the English.

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Fun

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Loved the book, every page, used it as an allegorical story in Christian transformation with our youths

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The Great Goddess Isis makes her appearance.

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This is a classic of Western literature.

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