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The golden ass
Book • 200
The Golden Ass, also known as Metamorphoses, is a Roman novel by Apuleius that tells the story of Lucius, a young man fascinated by magic who is accidentally transformed into a donkey.
The novel is filled with inset tales and explores themes of transformation and redemption.
It is considered a precursor to the picaresque genre and has influenced many later writers.
The novel is filled with inset tales and explores themes of transformation and redemption.
It is considered a precursor to the picaresque genre and has influenced many later writers.
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Mentioned in 6 episodes
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as a book read by his students, which tells the story of a man who gets turned into an ass.

Gregory Shaw

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Bridging East & West: Gregory Shaw Explores the Resonances Between Neoplatonism & Tantric Spirituality
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as the source of the Amor and Psyche fable.

Brian Clark

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Brian Clark: Reclaiming Eros
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as one of the books they often cover in Human Situation course.


Tamler Sommers

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Episode 326: The Most Important Episode of Your (Academic) Life
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as the book which tells the story of Psyche going to the underworld.


Mary Beard

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A Trip To The Underworld
Mentioned by Titus, it is a book by Apollonius, the only extant Roman fiction book.

Rome? Rome! w/ Duo Stulti: The J. Burden Show Ep. 395
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as another example of an ancient Roman novel.

Shadi Bartsch

Shadi Bartsch on the Classics and China
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in relation to the Herbarium Apollaei Platonici, clarifying it's not by the same Apuleius.


Martin Vaux

Magic and Medicines #16: Leech Books and Early Medical Texts
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as a novel about a man who transforms into an ass and must learn to be a better person to transform back.

Ella Berthoud

The New Year Reading Reset: Finding fresh inspiration with bibliotherapist Ella Berthoud • #185
Mentioned by Elizabeth Nelson as the second century Roman novel where the story of Eros and Psyche is found.

Psyche’s Knife: Archetypal Explorations of Love and Power | Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson | HITW 193
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as the book in which the story of Eros and Psyche is told by an old woman character.

Brian James

Psyche’s Knife: Archetypal Explorations of Love and Power | Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson | HITW 193


