The Fortunes of Apuleius and the "Golden Ass": A Study in Transmission and Reception (Martin Classical Lectures)

by JuliaHaigGaisser (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $80.29

  The Golden Ass tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic. This book follows Apuleius' tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century, tracing its journey from roll to codex in fourth-century Rome, into the medieval library of Monte Cassino, into the hands of Italian humanists, into print, and, finally, over the Alps.