{"product_id":"metamorphoses-the-golden-ass-volume-i-books-1-6","title":"Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass), Volume I: Books 1–6","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA beguiling tale of mistaken transformation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of Apuleius, also known as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Golden Ass,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe hero, Lucius, eager to experience the sensations of a bird, resorts to witchcraft but by an unfortunate pharmaceutical error finds himself transformed into an ass. He knows he can revert to his own body by eating rose-petals, but these prove singularly elusive; and the bulk of the work describes his adventures as an animal. He also retails many stories that he overheard, the most charming being that of Cupid and Psyche (beginning, in true fairy-tale fashion, ‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eErant in quadam civitate rex et regina\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’). Some of the stories are as indecent as they are witty, and two in the ninth book were deemed by Boccaccio worthy of inclusion in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDecameron.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e At last the goddess Isis takes pity on Lucius. In a surprising denouement, he is restored to human shape and, now spiritually regenerated, is initiated into her mysteries. The author’s baroque Latin style nicely matches his fantastic narrative and is guaranteed to hold a reader's attention from beginning to end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Loeb Classical Library edition of Apuleius is in three volumes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Apuleius (Author), John Arthur Hanson Jr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52044837126465,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/3087\/9041\/files\/15_4c539e58-d9f9-4c86-95ac-6f7143e86b60.webp?v=1785584391","url":"https:\/\/www.bookemporium.pk\/products\/metamorphoses-the-golden-ass-volume-i-books-1-6","provider":"The Book Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}