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The Goloden Ass LuciusApuleius
Lucius Apuleius Apuleius
其他書名
The Golden Ass
出版Independently Published, 2019-05-12
主題Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
ISBN10979331729781097933174
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QvvSxgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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. This new translation is at once faithful to the meaning of the Latin, whilst reproducing all the exuberant gaiety of the original.