Metamorphoses , Vol 1 Of 2 by Apuleius
A curious young traveler obsessed with magic recounts how a fateful experiment strips him of human form and leaves him trapped in the body of a donkey; unable to speak and subject to humiliations, sale, and cruel or comic treatment by a succession of masters, he witnesses human vice and kindness, hears a series of embedded tales (including the famous love-and-trial story of a mortal woman and a god), and through these adventures and stories the work explores themes of transformation, curiosity, and the thin line between human and animal existence while setting the stage for a promised restoration.
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- Asinus Aureus
- The Golden Ass
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