{"product_id":"the-golden-ass-9780300198140","title":"The Golden Ass","description":"\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed poet and translator Sarah Ruden brilliantly brings Apuleius's comic tale to life\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A rollicking ride well worth the fare, . . . marvelously, sidesplittingly ridiculous. . . . It's a story, not a homily, and Sarah Ruden has re-bestowed it with artful aplomb.\"--Tracy Lee Simmons, \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A cause for celebration. . . . We owe Sarah Ruden a great debt of thanks for [this] English translation that is no less inventive, varied, and surprising than the original.\"--G. W. Bowersock, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With accuracy, wit, and intelligence, this remarkable new translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Ass\u003c\/i\u003e breathes new life into Apuleius's classic work. Sarah Ruden, a lyric poet as well as a highly respected translator, skillfully duplicates the verbal high jinks of Apuleius's ever-popular novel. It tells the story of Lucius, a curious and silly young man who is turned into a donkey when he meddles with witchcraft. Doomed to wander from region to region and be mistreated by a series of deplorable owners, Lucius at last is restored to human form with the help of the goddess Isis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Golden Ass\u003c\/i\u003e, the first Latin novel to survive in its entirety, is related to the Second Sophistic, a movement of learned and inventive literature. In a translation that is both the most faithful and the most entertaining to date, Ruden reveals to modern readers the vivid, farcical ingenuity of Apuleius's style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Ruden\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning classics scholar, a poet, and a widely published writer on religion and culture. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eVergil: The Poet's Life\u003c\/i\u003e. Her many translated works include Vergil's \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318955381010,"sku":"9780300198140","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d937d54b-8ac6-4f5d-b864-d730cc7f49a4.jpg?v=1748517381","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-golden-ass-9780300198140","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}