The Golden Ass - Softcover

Apuleius, Lucius

3.86

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595479376 ISBN 13: 9781595479372

Publisher: NuVision Publications, LLC, 2007

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The Golden Ass is a classic book filled with adventure, suspense, and humor. The story follows the misadventures of Lucius, an innovative young nobleman who travels to the Greek town of Hypata, well known for its witches.He is changed into a donkey and is constantly frustrated in his attempt to procure the remedy to his assness.

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About the Author:

Apuleius, born to a well-to-do family in the North African Roman colony of Numidia, was educated in Carthage and Athens, where he was initiated into the mysteries of the golddess Isis.

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Praise for Sarah Ruden's translation of the Aeneid:

"Robert Fagles, shortly before his death, set the bar very high for translating the Aeneid. Yet already the scholar-poet Sarah Ruden has soared over the bar. . . . The translation is alive in every part. . . .This is the first translation since Dryden's that can be read as a great English poem in itself."—Garry Wills, New York Review of Books (Garry Wills 2011-03-15)

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