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Apuleius: Metamorphoses Book I (Paperback, New)
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Apuleius: Metamorphoses Book I (Paperback, New)
Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
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Apuleius' Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, our only complete Latin
novel, tells the story of Lucius, a young man turned into a donkey
by magic because of his unfettered curiosity. After many adventures
he is finally saved by the goddess Isis, whose follower he becomes.
The famous first book of the novel introduces the protagonist's
character, his interest in magic and his gullibility, but also
important themes of the novel such as metamorphosis from man into
beast. Lucius listens to stories about magic and witchcraft told to
him on his journey to ancient Thessaly and narrates them to the
reader. A substantial part of the first book accordingly
concentrates on the self-contained tale about a certain Socrates
and his unhappy experiences with murderous Thessalian witches.
Apuleius himself had been put on trial for allegedly using erotic
magic to make his future wife fall in love with him, a theme which
also appears in Metamorphoses 1. Throughout the novel, Apuleius
portrays Lucius as an unreliable first person narrator and thus
implicates the reader of the novel in the same character fault that
drives its protagonist: curiosity. This edition of Book I presents
the Latin text with a modern translation, substantial introduction
and accompanying commentary. The author Apuleius is discussed in
the literary environment of the second century AD together with key
themes of the first book and the novel as a whole. Special
attention is given to ancient magic, the roles of philosophy and
the goddess Isis in the novel as well as the extensive reception of
the first book in literature up to modern times. The commentary
illustrates Apuleius' text as a densely constructed literary work
and explains literary allusions as well as philosophical,
historical and religious contexts.
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