Protean Ass

The Protean Ass provides the most comprehensive account (in any language) of the reception of The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses) of Apuleius, the only work of Latin prose fiction worthy of the name of ''novel'' to survive intact from the ancient world. Apuleius'' second-century account of the curious young man who is changed into a donkey following an affair with a witch''s slave-girl, and undergoe...