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- catalog abstract ""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. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the kindness of the Goddess Isis. 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. 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.".
- catalog alternative "Metamorphoses. English".
- catalog contributor b5701430.
- catalog contributor b5701431.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""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. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the kindness of the Goddess Isis. 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. 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "lv, 277 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Golden ass.".
- catalog identifier "0198149328 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Golden ass.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "englat".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Golden ass.".
- catalog subject "873/.01 20".
- catalog subject "Metamorphosis Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Mythology, Classical Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PA6209.M3 W35 1994".
- catalog title "Metamorphoses. English".
- catalog title "The golden ass / Apuleius ; translated with introduction and explanatory notes by P.G. Walsh.".
- catalog type "Fantasy fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".