by Apuleius · Oxford Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192838889
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«The Golden Ass» («El asno de oro») is the classic Latin novel by Apuleius, published by Oxford Paperbacks in paperback (336 pages, in English).
It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity about magic transforms him into an ass; after undergoing trials and humiliations, the goddess Isis restores him to human form. The work blends romantic adventure, fable and religious testimony, and is one of the forerunners of the picaresque novel.
Work written in Latin as «Metamorphoseon libri XI»; Oxford World's Classics edition with translation, introduction and notes by P. G. Walsh.
Recommended for readers of Greco-Roman classics, fantasy literature and adventure tales with a mythological background.
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.
