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The golden ass / Apuleius ; translated by William Adlington.

By: Apuleius.
Contributor(s): Adlington, William, fl. 1566.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Wordsworth classics of world literature: Publisher: Ware, UK : Wordsworth Editions, 1996Description: xiii, 204 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1853264601.Subject(s): Mythology, Classical | Metamorphosis -- FictionDDC classification: 873.01
Contents:
Book One -- Book Two -- Book Three -- Book Four -- Book Five -- Book Six -- Book Seven -- Book Eight -- Book Nine -- Book Ten -- Book Eleven.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 873.01 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00096866
Total holds: 0

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Includes bibliographical references (page xiii).

Book One -- Book Two -- Book Three -- Book Four -- Book Five -- Book Six -- Book Seven -- Book Eight -- Book Nine -- Book Ten -- Book Eleven.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements (p. vi)
  • Abbreviations (p. ix)
  • Introduction (p. xi)
  • Select Bibliography (p. l)
  • Book 1 Journey to Hypata: the Exemplar of Socrates (p. 1)
  • Book 2 Further Warnings at Byrrhena's: The, Exemplar of Thelyphron (p. 18)
  • Book 3 the Festival of Laughter: Lucius Becomes an Ass (p. 39)
  • Book 4 at the Bandits' Hideout. Cupid and Psyche (i) (p. 58)
  • Book 5 Cupid and Psyche (continued) (p. 80)
  • Book 6 Cupid and Psyche (continued): the Frustrated Escape (p. 100)
  • Book 7 Charite (and Lucius) Rescued: Further Ordeals of Lucius (p. 120)
  • Book 8 Charite's Revenge and Death: Lucius with the Catamite Priests (p. 138)
  • Book 9 with the Priests, the Baker, the Market-Gardener: Four Tales of Cuckolding (p. 161)
  • Book 10 Tales of Wicked Women: Pleasant Life with the Cooks Leads to Public Humiliation (p. 191)
  • Book 11 Salvation, and Conversion to Isis (p. 218)
  • Explanatory Notes (p. 241)
  • Index and Glossary of Names (p. 271)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Apuleius's Metamorphoses--or, more popularly, The Golden Ass--is the most immediately entertaining work of Latin literature, and its glittering style and multiple registers are a challenge to translators. There is a danger in being too simple (Robert Graves, 1950, revised by Michael Grant, 1990) or too stiff (Jack Lindsay, 1962). Scholars have produced reliable and readable versions (Arthur Hanson, 1989, with facing Latin; P. G. Walsh, 1994; E. J. Kenney, 1998), but these miss some of Apuleius's idiosyncrasy, which Joel Relihan (2007) sought to capture. Now Ruden (visiting scholar, Wesleyan Univ.) gives the reader a rich blend of the colloquial and the elevated. A sample: "Now to my preface. Who the heck am I, you'd like to know. Briefly: my ancient stock is from Attic Hymettus and the Ephyrean Isthmus and Spartan Taenarus." A bit later: "So here I am, pleading in advance to be let off if I commit some offense, as I'm still a greenhorn." The tone is jaunty: "this twin-eyed gaze of mine," "a rather limp-wristedly good-looking boy." In all, a very American translation that captures much of the fun of the original. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; general readers. D. Konstan New York University

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