The Golden Ass

begin, Apuleius wrote a novel, The Golden Ass, which demonstrates Roman worldviews of the self. In the book, he explains a perspective about what makes the self: experience and transformations. Lucius, the protagonist, goes through many different changes that really shaped his character by the end of the novel. He underwent multipart transformations that are physical, personality wise, his social class, his beliefs, and his interests. At the beginning of The Golden Ass, Lucius’ internal and external

The Discrimination of Women in Apuleius’s The Golden Ass According to Merriam-Webster, “gender inequality, or in other words, gender discrimination refers to unfair rights between male and female based on different gender roles which leads to unequal treatment in life.” The term gender inequality has been a big problem in human history as it was in ancient Rome.  In Apuleius’s, The Golden Ass, there are specific examples and sets of imagery that show how women were discriminated against in Ancient

Although The Answer/ La Respuesta: Including Sor Filotea’s Letter and New Selected Poems (English and Spanish Edition.) and The Golden Ass emerge from very different cultural contexts, they share a key similarities in their treatment of desire as the most legitimate object of desire and love as figuring as far less significant in relative importance. Though the desire are two different kinds. The desire is the thirst for knowledge in the book, The Answer/ La Respuesta: Including Sor Filotea’s Letter

seemingly different in the Golden Ass when compared to the Iliad. In the Iliad, the characters appear to understand their predetermined fate as soldiers, “then to the left our ready arms apply, / And live with glory, or with glory die” (Homer 245), even though, individually, characters may ignore prophecies which ultimately predict their fate. In the Iliad, whether because of divine intervention or destiny, the characters have little impact on their own fate. In the Golden Ass, fate is never outright

succeed in the Roman world. The mystery religion of Isis, for example, was considered to be the most successful mystery religion above all (Ferguson 1970, p. 106). This is due to the belief that Isis was “... [the] highest of the god ...” (Apuleius Golden ass ex. 11.1). In addition, the practice of Roman religion could be seen as polytheistic. Hence, people tended to yearn for greater blessings from the gods and goddesses. In this case, Isis was considered to be an option. Moreover, Romans valued the

and pay through the nose for it” (Met. 2.6, pp. 25). The similar inquisitive character of Actaeon and Lucius is used to construct a parallel between the two narratives. The purposeful story of Diana and Actaeon provides a similar message to The Golden Ass. Actaeon and Lucius were both overly curious and saw what they should not have seen. Actaeon gawked at Diana bathing while Lucius saw Pamphile turn into an owl (Met. 3.21, pp. 60). Although Actaeon is turned into a stag by Diana and then devoured

In the two novels the Homers Odyssey and Apeleius’ The Golden Ass, entailed these two main characters that undergoes these over the top adventures and experiences to acquire their goal. Both Odysseus and Lucius struggle along their long journey home and endured multiple obstacles along the way. Although both storylines were problematic and held many challenges, when compared to one another, I feel as though in The Golden Ass, Lucius underwent more hardships to finally reach his goal. Lucius not only

famous for shape-shifting and misleading travellers he has also been referred to as the ‘jester of the fairy court’ (Dyer). As evidenced in the play when Puck is causing mischief and performs practical jokes, especially on the four Athenian lovers and declares “Lord, what fools these mortals be” (3.2.115). Shakespeare has refashioned the folk figure of Robin Goodfellow, is a type of fairy known as hobgoblins, also in medieval times, Robin was considered a nickname for the devil, however, the character

Ovid’s Metamorphoses, I will use the Contest of Arachne and Minerva. The third story I will analyze is from Apuleius’s The Golden Ass. The story I will analyze is that of how Lucius was turned into a donkey while attempting to become an owl using magic and the ensuing worship of the cult of Isis. In the following paragraphs, I will analyze stories from the books The Golden Ass by Apuleius, Aeneid written by Virgil and Metamorphoses by Ovid, to explain what myth is how myth helps people understand

Netherlandish use of triptychs—three distinct art pieces that simultaneously exist as individual images and as a collective picture—usually were presented as devotional images and altarpieces. Joachim Patinir’s triptych, The Penitence of Saint Jerome (c. 1512-1515, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY), employs both the same form of traditional triptychs and the Netherlandish tradition of extended panoramic landscapes; however, the triptych breaks traditional convention. The three separate panels share