Translator:
Graves, Robert 1895-1985
Place of Publication:
New York, New York
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Copyright Date:
1951
ISBN / SBN / ISSN:
none found
Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)
Media Sub-type:
Book
LoC Call Number:
PA 6209 .M3 G7 1951
Accession Number:
066897
Keyword Subject Headings:
Lucius Apuleius 124-ca.170
Cupid and Psyche
Cupid and Psyche
User Notes:
Paperback; xxii + 293 pp. including an appendix.
The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, which Augustine of Hippo referred to as
The Golden Ass (Asinus aureus), is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to
survive in its entirety. It contains the original telling of the Cupid and Psyche
story and many other tales. The OFJ Library has "A psychological interpretation
of The Golden Ass of Apuleius" by Marie-Louise von Franz, 1970, accession
#000139, as well as a 1962 "Revised Edition" of this work, 000138, entitled
"The Golden Ass of Apuleius: The Liberation of the Feminine in Man."
