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Apuleius: The Golden AssOxford World's Classics The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its entirety. It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic result in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the kindness of the Goddess Isis. Blending romantic

with digressions on the history of Athens and Sparta at that time

On this occasion he delivered the speech of thanks to the emperor Trajan which he afterwards expanded and published as the Panegyricus

and his highly rhetorical presentation of events

This volume offers the first scholarly translation into English prose for many years

Perfect for children aged 7 to 9

the country north of the Black Sea

In the winelands of sixteenth-century Germany

history will write her off

He was ideally suited to write about terrible political leaders

Diseases 1–2

Η πολιτική ηγεσία αναστατώνεται από τους φόνους ξένων επενδυτών

and geographical names