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The Golden AssOn the coverL'Amour et Psyché, François-Édouard Picot, 1817
The Golden Ass
A curious young man dabbling in magic is accidentally turned into a donkey, and stumbles through a bawdy, picaresque, and finally sacred series of adventures, including the exquisite fable of Cupid and Psyche, before he is restored. The only Latin novel to survive entire.
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Funny, filthy, magical, and surprisingly moving, the ancient world's most entertaining novel, and the source of the timeless love story of Cupid and Psyche. Nothing else from antiquity is quite this much fun.
Folklore in this book
The Grove · Greek folkloreThe gods of Olympus, the monsters of the wine-dark sea, and the heroes who crossed them: the myth-world of Homer and Ovid, cut in marble by the ancients and painted anew by the Pre-Raphaelites.Zeus · Athena · Poseidon · Circe and 31 moreEnter the realm →Setting2nd-century Roman world
The teeming, superstitious provinces of the Roman Empire, alive with travelling magicians, robbers, and mystery cults, seen from the lowly vantage of a man trapped in a donkey's body.