The Golden Ass: The Transformations of Lucius (FSG Classics) - Softcover

Apuleius

 
9780374531812: The Golden Ass: The Transformations of Lucius (FSG Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0374531811 ISBN 13: 9780374531812
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The story of The Golden Ass is that of Lucius Apuleius, a young man of good birth who encountered many strange adventures while disporting himself along the roads to Thessaly. Not the least of these occurred when Apuleius offended a priestess of the White Goddess, who turned him into an ass. The tale of how Apuleius dealt with this misfortune and eventually resumed human form is conveyed by Robert Graves in modern English that is infused with a bawdy wit and sense of adventure that is "itself a small masterpiece of twentieth-century prose" (Kenneth Rexroth, Saturday Review).

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Apuleius (c. 124 - c. 170 AD) was a Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He was a Numidian who lived under the Roman Empire and was from Madauros. 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 (and fortune) of a wealthy widow. His most famous work is his bawdy picaresque novel, the Metamorphoses, otherwise known as The Golden Ass. It is the only Latin novel that has survived in its entirety. Being an immensely sophisticated narrative that opens up various perspectives onto a rich cultural and social life, Metamorphoses was underappreciated until recent decades.

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Verlag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0374531811
ISBN 13 
9780374531812
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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