The Tale Of Lucius Or The Ass Onos

Author : Joel C. Relihan
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1647921252
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tale of Lucius; or, The Ass (Onos) written by Joel C. Relihan and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anonymous Greek reworking (doubtfully attributed to Lucian) of the lost, anonymous Greek Metamorphoseis (falsely attributed to Lucius of Patras). An American translation by Joel C. Relihan (Professor of Classics, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts), available as a free eBook from Hackett Publishing Company.

Author : Apuleius
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014190450X
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Ass written by Apuleius and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of the many adventures of a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to be transformed into a donkey. The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and Lucius is initiated into her cult. Apuleius' enchanting story has inspired generations of writers such as Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats with its dazzling combination of allegory, satire, bawdiness and sheer exuberance, and remains the most continuously and accessibly amusing book to have survived from Classical antiquity.

Author : Apuleius
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160384032X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Ass written by Apuleius and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relihan uses alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, to create a sparkling, luxurious, and readable translation that reproduces something of the linguistic and comic effects of the original Latin. The general Introduction is a masterpiece of clarity, orienting the reader in matters of authorship, narration, genre, religion, structure and style. A generous and browsable index, select bibliography, and maps are included.

Author : Lucius Apuleius
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3736804644
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Ass written by Lucius Apuleius and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Ass is the only Ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive in its entirety. The protagonist of the novel is called Lucius, like the author. At the end of the novel, he is revealed to be from Madaurus, the hometown of Apuleius himself. The plot revolves around the protagonist's curiosity (curiositas) and insatiable desire to see and practice magic. While trying to perform a spell to transform into a bird, he is accidentally transformed into an ass. This leads to a long journey, literal and metaphorical, filled with in-set tales. He finally finds salvation through the intervention of the goddess Isis, whose cult he joins.

Author : Apuleius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Ass written by Apuleius and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Lucius, a Roman-named Greek youth of means and prominent family whose curiosity about magic gets him changed into a donkey.

Author : Apuleius
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760755983
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Ass, Or, The Metamorphoses written by Apuleius and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Apuleius
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374505322
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transformations of Lucius written by Apuleius and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1951 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story follows Lucius, a young man of good birth, as he disports himself in the cities and along the roads of Thessaly. This is a wonderful tale abounding in lusty incident, curious adventure and bawdy wit." -- Google Books viewed January 11, 2021.

Author : Lucius Apuleius
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8027235324
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE GOLDEN ASS written by Lucius Apuleius and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Golden Ass" or "The Metamorphoses" is the only Latin novel by Apuleius to survive in its entirety. Adapted from an earlier Greek story, "The Golden Ass" tells of the adventures of Lucius, a young man who is obsessed with magic. In attempting to perform a spell, Lucius inadvertently transforms himself into an ass. His long and arduous journey is ornately illustrated by Apuleius' witty, imaginative, and often explicit language, in a series of subplots that carry the reader through to Lucius' salvation by the goddess Isis. These include the stories of Cupid and Psyche, Aristomenes, Thelyphron and others. The novel reflects Apuleius' own fascination with magic and the occult, and although comical at times, contains very serious messages about impiety towards the gods, and the risks of tampering with the supernatural. Apuleius (c. 125-c. 180) was a student of Platonist philosophy and Latin prose writer.

Author : Apuleius
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603841148
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tale of Cupid and Psyche written by Apuleius and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Cupid and Psyche a romance, a folktale, a Platonic allegory of the nature of the soul, a Jungian tale of individuation, or an archetypal dream? This volume provides Joel Relihan's lively translation of this best known section of Apuleius' Golden Ass, some useful and illustrative parallels, and an engaging discussion of what to make of this classic story.

Author : Robert Graves
Publisher : RosettaBooks
ISBN 13 : 0795336756
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Ass written by Robert Graves and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the Latin by the poet and author of I, Claudius, this ancient Roman novel follows the many adventures of a man who transforms into an ass. Driven by his all-consuming curiosity, a young man of good parentage named Lucius Apuleius takes a trip to Thessaly. Along the way, amidst a series of bizarre adventures, he inadvertently offends a priestess of the White Goddess, who promptly turns him into an ass. How Lucius responds to his new misfortune, and ultimately finds a way to become human again, makes for a funny and fascinating tale. The Metamorphosis of Apuleius, referred to by St. Augustine as The Golden Ass, is the oldest novel written in Latin to survive in its entirety. Originally written by Lucius of Patrae, this translation by Robert Graves highlights the ribald humor and vivid sense of adventure present in the original. Providing a rare window into the daily lives of regular people in ancient Greece, Robert Graves’s translation of this classic tale is at once hilarious, informative, and captivating.