The Golden Ass by Apuleius (Book Review)

Review of The Golden Ass by Apuleius
Goodreads review mentioned (www.goodreads.... (top review, Bill Kerwin)
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[@jeddak]

They sure don't write erotica like they used to!

[@mikrophonie5633]

It's a great book, very entertaining and fun to read.

[@YeWitchfinderNielsen]

The original screenplay for The 9th Gate

[@i_heart_fun]

Started reading on the internet archive before I finished your review.
The part about Meroe turning the man into a beaver cause he would then bite his balls off! Hilarious!
Have you read 'The Decameron' by Giovanni Boccaccio? I'm reading it now and had a similar reaction to it. It opens with a description of Florence during the Bubonic Plague that, as you say, feels very contemporaneous.

[@YeWitchfinderNielsen]

So much better than the latest of Asha Logos

[@fogpimp]

What a title.

[@cloudyskies5497]

What a delightful review. I ordered the book while listening. I've loved statues of Eros & Psyche for many years (there's one in my city). I absolutely loved Alchemy of the Soul by Martin Lowenthal that places the myth into a framework of spiritual initiation. It's clearly time now to read The Golden Ass and I will take your advice and do it in the summer with strawberries!