Keledai Emas

Metamorphoses karya Apuleius adalah satu-satunya novel Romawi kuno dalam bahasa Latin yang masih ada dalam keadaan utuh. Novel ini diberi sebutan Keledai Emas (Asinus aureus) oleh Santo Agustinus.<ref>St. Augustine, The City of God 18.18.2'</ref>

Protagonis novel tersebut bernama Lucius. Pada akhir novel, tersibak bahwa ia berasal dari Madaurus, tempat asal Apuleius.

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 Terjemahan Inggris 
 Apuleius; Adlington, William (Trans.) (1566). The Golden Ass. Wordsworth Classics of World Literature, Wordsworth Ed. Ltd.: Ware, GB. 
 Apuleius; Taylor, Thomas (Trans.) (1822). The Metamorphosis, or The Golden Ass, and Philosophical Works, of Apuleius. London: J. Moyes (Suppressed (dirty) passages printed separately.)
 Apuleius; Head, George (Trans.) (1851). The Metamorphosis of Apuleius; A Romance of the Second Century. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. (Bowdlerized)
 Apuleius; Anonymous Translator (Trans.) (1853). The Works of Apuleius. London: Bohn's Library.
 Apuleius; Byrne, Francis D. (Trans.) (1904). The Golden Ass. London: The Imperial Press. (Dirty passages rendered in original Latin.)
 Apuleius; Butler H. E. (Trans.) (1910). The Golden Ass. London: The Clarendon Press. (Dirty passages removed.)
 Apuleius; Graves, Robert (Trans.) (1950). The Golden Ass. Penguin Classics, Penguin Books Ltd. 
 Apuleius; Lindsay, Jack (Trans.) (1962). The Golden Ass. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 
 Apuleius; Hanson, John Arthur (Trans.) (1989). Metamorphoses. Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press.  (v. 1),  (v. 2)
 Apuleius; Walsh, P.G. (Trans.) (1994). The Golden Ass. New York: Oxford UP. 
 Apuleius; Kenney, E.J. (Trans.) (1998, rev. 2004). The Golden Ass. London: Penguin. 
 Apuleius; Relihan, Joel C. (Trans.) (2007). The Golden Ass Or, A Book of Changes Hackett Publishing Company: Indianapolis. 
 Apuleius; Ruden, Sarah (Trans.) (2011). The Golden Ass. Yale UP. 

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 Carver, Robert H. F. (2007). The Protean Ass: The 'Metamorphoses' of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
 De Smet, Richard. (1987). "The Erotic Adventure of Lucius and Photis in Apuleius' Metamorphoses." Latomus 46.3: 613-623. Société d'Études Latines de Bruxelles.
 Gaisser, J. Haig. (2008). The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass: A Study in Transmission and Reception. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
 Gorman, S. (2008). "When the Text Becomes the Teller: Apuleius and the Metamorphoses." Oral Tradition 23(1), Center for Studies in Oral Tradition
 Griffiths, J. Gwyn (1975). Apuleius of Madauros: The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI). E. J. Brill. 
 Harrison, S. (2000). Apuleius. A Latin Sophist. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
 Harrison, S. (ed.) (2015). Characterisation in Apuleius' Metamorphoses: Nine Studies. Pierides, 5. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
 Harrison, S. J. (2013). Framing the Ass: Literary Texture in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
 Hooper, R. (1985). Structural Unity in the Golden Ass. Latomus, 44(2), 398-401.
 Kenney, E. (2003). "In the Mill with Slaves: Lucius Looks Back in Gratitude." Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-) 133.1: 159-192.
 Keulen, W. H. (2011). Aspects of Apuleius' Golden Ass: The Isis Book: A Collection of Original Papers. Leiden: Brill.
 Kirichenko, A. (2008). "Asinus Philosophans: Platonic Philosophy and the Prologue to Apuleius' "Golden Ass."" Mnemosyne, 61(1), fourth series, 89-107.
 Lee, Benjamin Todd, Ellen D Finkelpearl, and Luca Graverini. (2014). Apuleius and Africa. New York;London: Routledge.
 May, R. (2006). Apuleius and Drama: The Ass on Stage. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 Oswald, Peter (2002). The Golden Ass or the Curious Man. Comedy in Three Parts after the Novel by Lucius Apuleius. London: Oberon Books. 
 O'Sullivan, Timothy M. (2017). "Human and Asinine Postures in Apuleius' Golden Ass." The Classical Journal, 112.2: 196-216.
 Paschalis, M., & Frangoulidis, S. A. (2002). Space in the Ancient Novel. Groningen: Barkhuis Publishing.
 Perry, B. E. (2016). "An Interpretation of Apuleius' Metamorphoses." Illinois Classical Studies 41.2: 405-421
 Schlam, C. (1968). The Curiosity of the Golden Ass. The Classical Journal, 64.3: 120-125.
 Schoeder, F. M. (2008). "The Final Metamorphosis: Narrative Voice in the Prologue of Apuleius' Golden Ass." In S. Stern-Gillet, and K. Corrigan (eds.), Reading Ancient Texts: Aristotle and Neoplatonism - Essays in Honour of Denis O'Brien, 115-135. Boston: Brill.
 Stevenson, S. (1934). "A Comparison of Ovid and Apuleius as Story-Tellers." The Classical Journal 29.8: 582-590.
 Tatum, J. (1969). "The Tales in Apuleius' Metamorphoses." Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 100: 487-527.
 Tilg, Stefan (2014). Apuleius' Metamorphoses: A Study in Roman Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
 Wright, C. S, Holloway, J. Bolton, & Schoeck, R. J. (2000). Tales within Tales: Apuleius Through Time. New York: AMS Press.

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 Forum Romanum: Metamorphoses (Latin text only.)
 William Adlington's English translation made in 1566:
 Project Gutenberg: The Golden Asse (Plain text.)
 Sacred Text Archive: The Golden Asse (Based on the preceding.)
 EServer: The Golden Asse (Based on earlier edition of the HTML version above.)
 The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche (Excerpt illustrated by Dorothy Mullock, 1914.)
 
 The Spectacles of Apuleius: a digital humanities project on the Metamorphoses of Apuleius
 Metamorphoses at Perseus Digital LibraryKomentar'''
 The Golden Ass by Apuleius , essay by Ted Gioia (Conceptual Fiction)
 The Golden Ass by B. Slade
 Book One and Apuleius' Metamorphoses," in J. S. Ruebel, Apuleius: Metamorphoses Book I. (PDF.)

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