A young man magically turned into a donkey passes through many masters and adventures before the goddess Isis restores him. Apuleius's bawdy, fantastical Latin novel.
Books that mention The Golden Ass (5)
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell: “That comes in Apuleius' Golden Ass, second century A.D.”
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag: “Comic plots are stories either of conscious self-manipulation and role-playing (Lysistrata, The Golden Ass, Tartuffe)...”
In Search of a Character by Graham Greene: “...a memory of Fotis stirring the pot in The Golden Ass.”
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie: “for Apu I went back to The Golden Ass, but, in my story, metamorphosis was to be a different brother's fate”
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “the Satyricon by Petronius and the Golden Ass by the great orator, neo-Platonist philosopher”