The metamorphosis of Apuleius
Subtitle: Cupid and Psyche, Beauty and the beast, King Kong
By: Pasquale Accardo.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Apuleius.; Apuleius -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.; Apuleius -- Adaptations.; Fairy tales -- History and criticism.; Psyche (Greek deity) in literature.; Eros (Greek deity) in literature.; King Kong (Fictitious character); Beauty and the beast (Tale); Monsters in literature.
Description: "The Metamorphosis of Apuleius traces two millennia of changes in the major inserted tale in the second century Metamorphoses (or Golden Ass), the only classical Latin novel to survive in a complete text. This most charming "Tale of Cupid and Psyche" was both popular in its own day and became the subject of allegorical intepretation into the Dark Ages.

However, it became lost in the Middle Ages, probably in part because of the parent novel's fairly explicit eroticism and militant paganism (not counting its possible anti-Christian jibes). Resurfacing in the Renaissance from a single surviving manuscript, it again became the subject of allegorization and spawned a large number of translations and adaptations which have continued up to the present day, with C. S.

Lewis's Till We Have Faces being only one of the more notable recent retellings."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-319) and index.