Metamorphoses

The Golden Ass

eBook

English language

Published Aug. 14, 2022 by Standard Ebooks.

Curious Lucius turns himself into a donkey while learning magic and turns his Greek business trip into an odyssey of tribulation and spiritual growth.

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The vast majority of this book is “humor”, but not any type of humor that I can appreciate. I found it to be a real chore to read this book, and I only persisted in doing so for its historical significance. At least I was rewarded with a final chapter which was devoid of “humor”, and which gave some hints as to what the Roman cults of Isis and Osiris were like. 

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Classical Mythology
  • Metamorphosis
  • Latin fiction
  • Translations into English
  • Isis (Egyptian deity)
  • Metamorphosis in literature
  • Latin literature
  • Mythology, Classical, in literature
  • History and criticism
  • Translations from Latin
  • Humor (Fiction)
  • Mythology, Classical
  • Classic Literature
  • Latin language materials
  • Fiction, fantasy, general
  • Latin literature, translations into english

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