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The Golden Ass by Apuleius 1956-8


Author: Apuleius
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: 1956-8
Format: Softcover
Condition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear. Tanned pages.

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Reader's note

A purple Penguin edition of The Golden Ass by Apuleius. If you are not put off by the Egyptian story-telling convention which allows humans to be changed into animals and, after various adventures, restored to their proper shapers, you should be amused by this queer novel, a string of anecdotes in the popular Milesian style, but intended only for you private ear, which I call my Transformations. Let me briefly introduce myself as Lucius Apuleius, a native of Masdura in North Africa, but of ancient Greek stock. Various ancestors of mine lived on Mount Hymettus near Athens; Taenarus in Laconia - all of them places immortalized by more famous writers than myself. I was brought to Athens as a child to learn Attic Greek, and later went to Rome where I set myself to study Latin - a painful task.