The golden ass

being the Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius

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Apuleius: The golden ass (Latin language, 1915, Harvard University Press, W. Heinemann)

607 pages

Latin language

Published May 18, 1915 by Harvard University Press, W. Heinemann.

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The vast majority of this book is “humor”, but not any type of humor that I can appreciate. I found it to be a real chore to read this book, and I only persisted in doing so for its historical significance. At least I was rewarded with a final chapter which was devoid of “humor”, and which gave some hints as to what the Roman cults of Isis and Osiris were like. 

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