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Apuleius

The Golden Ass (World's Classics). Translated with Introduction and Explanatory Notes by P. G. Walsh.

Oxford: Clarendon Press., 21.07.1994.,

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ISBN
9780198149323
Autore
Apuleius
Editori
Oxford: Clarendon Press., 21.07.1994.
Formato
LV, 277 Seiten / p. 14,5 x 3,1 x 22,4 cm, Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag / with dust jacket.
Sovracoperta
No
Lingue
Inglese
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione
No

Descrizione

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - altersgem�sehr guter Zustand / very good condition for age - The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the kindness of the Goddess Isis. Simultaneously a blend of romantic adventure, fable, and religious testament, the Golden Ass is one of the truly seminal books of European Literature, of intrinsic interest as a novel in its own right, and one of the earliest examples of the picaresque. It includes as its famous centrepiece the myth of Cupid and Psyche, the search of the human soul for union with the divine, and has been the inspiration for numerous creative works of literature and art since the Renaissance. -- This new translation is at once faithful to the meaning of the Latin, whilst reproducing all the exuberant gaiety of the original. ISBN 9780198149323