Metamorphoses by Apuleius

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Metamorphoses_by_Apuleius
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:novel
gptkbp:alternativeName gptkb:The_Golden_Ass
gptkbp:author gptkb:Apuleius
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Roman_Empire
gptkbp:date 2nd century AD
gptkbp:firstPublished 1469
gptkbp:genre picaresque novel
ancient Roman literature
prose fiction
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Metamorphoses by Apuleius
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Don_Quixote
gptkb:The_Satyricon
The Golden Ass by William Adlington
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Metamorphoses_by_Lucian
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Lucius
gptkbp:notableAdaptation various stage plays
opera by Hans Werner Henze
gptkbp:notableFor only Latin novel to survive in its entirety
embedded tale of Cupid and Psyche
transformation of Lucius into a donkey
gptkbp:numberOfBooks 11
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Thessaly
gptkbp:subject gptkb:magic
gptkb:transformation
adventure
mythology
gptkbp:translatedInto William Adlington (1566)
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Psyche_(mythology)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7