Loading...In this post I have the pleasure of discussing one of my all time favorite ancient works of fiction, very funny and quite bawdy, but also showing us an important facet of ancient pagan religion in one of the Mystery Religions. It was written by an important second-century CE author named Apuleius and is sometimes called Metamorphoses but is more commonly known as The Golden Ass. Here is how I talk about it in The Triumph of Christianity (Simon & Schuster).
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The Golden Ass is a hilarious tale, filled with joyous and rather raucous sex, nocturnal magical rites, murderous plots, wild escapades, narrow escapes, and, as it turns out,
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