The Golden Asse or The Metamorphoses 642c4q
by Apuleius e392s
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The Golden Asse is one of the oldest surviving Latin novels written by the Latin prose writer and magician Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis, whose other writings include A Discourse on Magic, On Plato and his Doctrine, On the God of Socrates, On the Universe, and Florida: A compilation of twenty-three extracts from his various speeches and lectures.
The Golden Asse narrates the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and experiments on magic results in his transformation to a donkey. Upon the transformation, he witnesses unusual things and the story moves on to the famous myth of Cupid and Psyche. Eventually his transformation is reversed back to human by Osiris.
