I just finished reading of the Golden Ass of Apuleius.
Apuleius: writer, philosopher, magician and alchemist, who lived in the second century AD C. and sourced from Madaura (Algeria).
He studied in Rome and wrote his works in Latin.
is accused of magic and faces a trial after which they will be acquitted.
follower of Plato, is its certain currents of thought (such as Pythagoreanism and Orphism) and is a follower of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
few strokes to sketch the figure.
The Golden Ass (Metamorphoses not even the title) is a hilarious book.
It 'full of humor, irony, descriptions (and of course have to read it with the knowledge to meet in the second century).
Change easily from a "low profile events" to the other, and all are characterized by lightness or drama.
The reflections of the donkey-Lucio, who occasionally creep between passages, giving the story a touch of philosophy in a nutshell it does not hurt and no overhead.
The characters of adulterous women are great and willing, as well as the profile that outlines the pen of Apuleius.
One of my personal reflection:
in the current literary scene too often run into romanticized memories of sexual and almost always the preserve of women, limping gait, sloppy and boring compared to hatches of Apuleius.
I wonder why, after almost two thousand years, that argument has already been treated in many different ways and so many original authors more or less old, can still be considered outrageous and not evolved, in my opinion it's the same old soup warmed that, over time, has completely lost its taste.
and lost, especially, light irony that should characterize the topic.
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