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Acclaimed poet and translator Sarah Ruden brilliantly brings Apuleius's comic tale to life A rollicking ride well worth the fare, . . . marvelously, sidesplittingly ridiculous. . . . Its a story, not a homily, and Sarah Ruden has re-bestowed it with
Apuleius' story of Cupid and Psyche, the relationship of the human Soul with divine Love, is one of the great allegories of world literature. It forms an integral part of and profoundly illuminates the message of his novel Metamorphoses or The Golden
Oratory and philosophy from a Latin novelist. Apuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born ca. AD 125 in Madauros to a politically prominent family and received an elite education in the provincial capital Carthage and at Athens, wher