Apuleius

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1) The golden ass

Author

Apuleius

Publisher

Clarendon Press

Pub. Date

1994.

Language

English

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A new translation of this classic Latin novel, one of the seminal books of European literature--a blend of romantic adventure, fable, and religious testament. It includes the myth of Cupid and Psyche, the search of the human soul for union with the divine.

2) The golden ass, or, Metamorphoses

Author

Apuleius

Series

Penguin classics

Publisher

Penguin Books

Pub. Date

2004.

Language

English

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This tale of a man who, when tinkering with magic, becomes changed into an ass is one of the most entertaining and remarkable stories from classic Latin literature. It is funny, bawdy and completely approachable - but also shows life from the point of view of a beast of burden in the Roman Empire of the second century CE. Lucius is an active young man enjoying life - and the favours of an attentive maid, one Fotis - when the temptation to experiment...

3) Amor And Psyche, The Psychic Development Of The Feminine, A Commentary On The Tale By Apuleius

Author

Apuleius

Publisher

Princeton Univ. Press, New York

Pub. Date

1956.

Language

English

4) The golden ass: being the Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius

Author

Apuleius

Series

Black and gold library

Publisher

Boni & Liveright

Pub. Date

[1927]

Language

English

5) The fable of Cupid and Psyche

Author

Apuleius

Publisher

Philosophical Research Society

Pub. Date

[1977]

Language

English

6) The transformations of Lucius: otherwise known as The golden ass

Author

Apuleius

Series

Noonday volume N305

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Pub. Date

[1951]

Language

English

7) The golden ass / translated by P.G. Walsh

Author

Apuleius

Publisher

[publisher not identified]

Pub. Date

1995.

Language

English

8) Apuleius' Golden ass, or, The metamorphosis: and other philosophical writings viz. On the God of Socrates & On the philosophy of Plato

Author

Apuleius

Series

Works volume 14

Publisher

Prometheus Trust

Pub. Date

1997.

Language

English

9) The golden asse of Lucius Apuleius

Author

Apuleius

Publisher

Rarity Press

Pub. Date

1931.

Language

English

10) The Herbal of Apuleius Barbarus: from the early twelfth-century manuscript formerly in the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds (Ms. Bodley 130) described by Robert T. Gunther

Author

Apuleius

Publisher

Printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe club [at the Oxford university press]

Pub. Date

1925.

Language

English

11) The herbal of Pseudo-Apuleius from the ninth-century manuscript in the abbey of Monte Cassino (Codex casinensis 97): together with the first printed edition of Joh. Phil. de Lignamine (Editio princeps Romae 1481) both in facsimile

Author

Apuleius

Publisher

Brill

Pub. Date

1935.

Language

Multiple

12) The arrow and the lamp: the story of Psyche

Author

Hodges, Margaret

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

[1989]

Language

English

Description

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Relates how Psyche married the god of love, Eros, how she lost him, and the many obstacles she had to overcome before she became an immortal and could join him on Mount Olympus.

13) The golden ass of Lucius Apuleius: now a book for young readers of all ages

Author

Usher, M. D

Publisher

David R. Godine

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

Description

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Lucius Apuleius, a young nobleman fascinated by magic, accidentally turns himself into an ass and then sets out on a journey that reveals to him the conditions of peasants and slaves in and around Thessaly and leads him to find redemption as a follower of Isis and Osiris.