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The Golden Ass

The Golden Ass

Apuleius
Ruden, Sarah

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Classic FictionGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

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ISBN10: 0300198140
ISBN13: 9780300198140
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Sep 10 2013
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Acclaimed poet and translator Sarah Ruden brilliantly brings Apuleius's comic tale to life

A rollicking ride well worth the fare, . . . marvelously, sidesplittingly ridiculous. . . . It's a story, not a homily, and Sarah Ruden has re-bestowed it with artful aplomb.--Tracy Lee Simmons, National Review

A cause for celebration. . . . We owe Sarah Ruden a great debt of thanks for [this] English translation that is no less inventive, varied, and surprising than the original.--G. W. Bowersock, New York Review of Books

With accuracy, wit, and intelligence, this remarkable new translation of The Golden Ass breathes new life into Apuleius's classic work. Sarah Ruden, a lyric poet as well as a highly respected translator, skillfully duplicates the verbal high jinks of Apuleius's ever-popular novel. It tells the story of Lucius, a curious and silly young man who is turned into a donkey when he meddles with witchcraft. Doomed to wander from region to region and be mistreated by a series of deplorable owners, Lucius at last is restored to human form with the help of the goddess Isis.

The Golden Ass, the first Latin novel to survive in its entirety, is related to the Second Sophistic, a movement of learned and inventive literature. In a translation that is both the most faithful and the most entertaining to date, Ruden reveals to modern readers the vivid, farcical ingenuity of Apuleius's style.

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