Apuleius: 23 books

The story is based around incident when Apuleius was accused of using magic to gain the attentions and fortune of a wealthy widow. He declaimed and then distributed a witty tour de force in his own defense before the proconsul and a court of magistrates convened in Sabratha, near ancient Tripoli, Libya.

The Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass, is the only Ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety. The protagonist of the novel is called Lucius. At the end of the novel, he is revealed to be from Madaurus, in ancient Algeria, the hometown of Apuleius himself. The plot revolves around the protagonist's...

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The main hero of the story called Lucius. The plot revolved around the main heroe’s curiosity. He wanted to see and practice magic. While he tried to perform a spell to transform into a bird, he accidentally transformed into an ass. This transform led to a long journey, full of adventures, which...

THE legend of Cupid and Psyche has been the subject of a learned work by Rohde, called Psyche; it has been examined by W. A. Clouston in his Popular Tales and Fictions (i. 205), and in a lighter vein by A. Lang in Custom and Myth, and in his preface to the reprint of Adlington's version. It would be...

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Le metamorfosi (dal latino Metamorphoseon libri XI, probabilmente la denominazione originaria), o L'asino d'oro (Asinus aureus), è un'opera della letteratura latina di Lucio Apuleio (II secolo d.C.). Il secondo titolo deriva dal De civitate Dei (XVlll, 18) di sant'Agostino. È l'unico romanzo antico...

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