A curious young man is transformed into a donkey and endures bawdy, perilous adventures in this ancient Roman novel of magic and satire.
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A curious young man is transformed into a donkey and endures bawdy, perilous adventures in this ancient Roman novel of magic and satire.
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"These rhetorical texts by Apuleius, second-century Latin writer and author of the famous novel Metamorphoses or Golden Ass, have not been translated in English since 1909. They are some of the very few Latin speeches surviving from their period, and constitute important evidence for Latin and Roman North African social and intellectual culture in the second century A.D. They are the work of a talented writer who is being increasingly viewed as the major literary artist of his time in Latin."
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What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Explicit seduction and sex scenes; adultery; a public bestiality spectacle
Violence & gore
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Bandit attacks, murders, executions, beatings; transformation body horror
Profanity
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Occasional coarse or crude language in translation
Substance use
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Recurring wine drinking and revelry in Roman social life
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Eunuch priests shown in same-sex sexual behavior; recurring side figures
Religious content
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Pagan cults, corrupt priests, and Isis mystery religion central to plot
Magic & witchcraft
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Witchcraft, magical ointments, and metamorphosis drive the premise
Occult / demonology
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Thessalian witches, potions, and ritual magic as practiced arts
Political content
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Satire of corrupt clergy, slavery, and social hypocrisy
Self-harm / suicide
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On-page suicide attempts in the embedded Cupid and Psyche tale
Abuse & suffering
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Sustained slavery, beatings, sexual coercion, and cruelty while a donkey
Other
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