Lucius Apuleius (c. AD 123-c. AD 180), was a Romanised Berber who is best remembered for his bawdy picaresque Latin novel The Golden Ass, otherwise known as the Metamorphoses. It is the only Latin novel which has survived in its entirety, and is an i...
From the INTRODUCTION. APULEIUS, the author of this beautiful episode, was a native of Madaura, an inland town of Africa, where he was born in the early part of the second century. He received the first rudiments of education at Carthage, and there a...
An enchanting story that has inspired generations of writers, including Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats
Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of the many adventures of a young man wh...