De wereld door de ogen van een ezel. Een wereld vol wreedheid en gevaar, waar het ‘ieder voor zich’ is en waar liefde, trouw en eerlijkheid ver te zoeken zijn.  Meer

Lucius Apuleius (tweede eeuw na Chr.) gold in zijn tijd als een belangrijk redenaar en filosoof. In Zwarte magie verdedigt hij zich tegen een aanklacht van toverkunst.  Meer

Lucius Apuleius (tweede eeuw na Chr.) schreef de oudst bekende biografie van Plato. Leven en leer van Plato beschrijft het leven van de filosoof en probeert zijn filosofie te doorgronden.  Meer

Apuleius' story of Cupid and Psyche, the relationship of the human Soul with divine Love, is one of the great allegories of world literature. It forms an integral part of and profoundly illuminates the message of his novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, which relates the adventures of a young man and his spiritual fall and redemption.  Meer

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.  Meer

The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and Lucius is initiated into her cult.  Meer

The Metamorphoses (Golden Ass) of Apuleius is a romance combining realism and magic. Lucius wants the sensations of a bird, but by pharmaceutical accident becomes an ass.  Meer

The Metamorphoses (Golden Ass) of Apuleius is a romance combining realism and magic. Lucius wants the sensations of a bird, but by pharmaceutical accident becomes an ass.  Meer

Using alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, this book is a translation of the original Latin.  Meer

Is "Cupid and Psyche" a romance, a folktale, a Platonic allegory of the nature of the soul, a Jungian tale of individuation, or an archetypal dream? This book provides a translation of this best known section of "Apuleius' Golden Ass".  Meer

Peter Singer has breathed new life into Apuleius’s The Golden Ass—a hilarious, bawdy tale and one of the earliest novels—accentuating its remarkable empathy for animals.  Meer

Nowadays we can judge books by their covers. In antiquity, when a 'book' was a papyrus roll, its first few words advertised the nature of the text to follow.  Meer

Apuleius' De Mundo ('On the Cosmos') has never been published in English translation. One reason for this may be that it has itself been viewed as a mere translation of a work that survives in the Aristotelian corpus, the Peri Kosmou (traditionally, but confusingly in this context, referred to as the De Mundo).  Meer

This book is a response to the literary pleasures and scholarly problems of reading the texts of Apuleius, most famous for his novel Metamorphoses or Golden Ass.  Meer

A New Work by Apuleius presents what may be the first lengthy Latin text from antiquity to be published in almost a century. Marshalling evidence from the text, intertextual relationships, stylistics, stemmatics, codicology, and philosophy, it lays out a compelling case for attributing this work - a summary of 14 of Plato's dialogues - to the second-century polymath Apuleius, author of the Apology, the Florida, the Metamorphoses, and the De Platone, an introduction to Plato for Latin readers.  Meer