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The Golden Ass

Apuleius·c. 160s CE·Latin

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The only Latin novel to survive complete. A man transformed into a donkey by misapplied magic wanders through a picaresque underworld of thieves and adulterers before a vision of the goddess Isis restores him to human form. Contains the embedded tale of Cupid and Psyche.

But I, roused by a keen desire to know the truth, when I could by no other means content my curiosity, joined at once to my slave Fotis a bold and adventurous mind, and demanded of her, since she was privy to all her mistress's secrets, that she show me by what means my body could be turned into a bird.

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