Acclaimed poet and translator Sarah Ruden brilliantly brings
Apuleius's comic tale to life 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 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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