Apuleius\'s Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel--the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived from antiquity.
Simultaneously a blend of romantic adventure, fable, and religious testamen.
After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately returned to human shape by the kindness of the goddess Isis.
It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass.
Apuleius\'s Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel--the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived from antiquity