by Apuleius · NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853264603
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«The Golden Ass (El asno de oro)» is Apuleius's satirical novel, published in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Written in Latin in the 2nd century and also known as The Metamorphoses, it is the only ancient Roman novel to survive in full. It tells how Lucius, through his curiosity about magic, is turned into an ass and, from that condition, lives adventures that show him the customs of his age with irony; it blends humour, fantastic storytelling and philosophical reflection.
It is part of the Wordsworth Classics of World Literature collection. This edition includes the English translation by P. G. Walsh.
Readers of classical literature and mythology, as well as those seeking a Roman satire with fantastic elements.
Apuleius, also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis, was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He was born in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day M'Daourouch, Algeria. He studied Platonism in Athens, travelled to Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries. The most famous incident in his life was when he was accused of using magic to gain the attentions of a wealthy widow. He declaimed his own defense before the proconsul and a court of magistrates convened in Sabratha, near Oea. This speech, which Apuleius subsequently published, is known as the Apologia.
