The Golden Ass

The Golden Ass

<DIV><P><B>Acclaimed poet and translator Sarah Ruden brilliantly brings Apuleius's comic tale to life</B><BR /><BR /> With accuracy, wit, and intelligence, this remarkable new translation of <I>The Golden Ass</I> breathes new life into Apuleius's classic work. Sarah Ruden, a lyric poet as well as a highly respected translator, skillfully duplicates the verbal high jinks of Apuleius's ever-popular novel. It tells the story of Lucius, a curious and silly young man, who is turned into a donkey when he meddles with witchcraft. Doomed to wander from region to region and mistreated by a series of deplorable owners, Lucius at last is restored to human form with the help of the goddess Isis.</P><P><I>The Golden Ass</I>, the first Latin novel to survive in its entirety, is related to the Second Sophistic, a movement of learned and inventive literature. In a translation that is both the most faithful and the most entertaining to date, Ruden reveals to modern readers the vivid, farcical ingenuity of Apuleius's style.</P></DIV>