The Golden Ass by Apuleius

This is the most continuously and accessibly amusing book that has come down to us from classical antiquity. (E. J. Kenney, editor and translator of the 1998 Penguin edition) Give me your ear, reader; you will enjoy yourself. (The Golden Ass, first paragraph) Apuleius’s biography [Lucius] Apuleius [Madaurensis] (whose dates are from roughly 124 AD … Continue reading The Golden Ass by Apuleius