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Apuleius : Metamorphoses; or, The Golden Ass

'Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Apuleius : Metamorphoses; or, the Golden Ass

'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Apuleius : Cupid and Psyche [from The Golden Ass]

'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Apuleius : Golden Ass, The

'Translate Apuleius'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Apuleius : Metamorphoses

[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts referred to in the journals are not given separate entries based on this list] 'Symposium of Plato Plays of Aeschlyus Plays of Sophocles Illiad of Homer Arrian's Historia Indicae Homer's Hymns [the above texts are bracketed to show they were all read in Greek] Histoire de la Revolution Francaise Apuleius Metamorphoses - Latin Coleridges Biographica Literaria Political Justice Rights of Man Elphinstone's Embassy to Caubul Severals [sic] vols of Gibbon'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Apuleius : Golden Ass, The (Metamorphoses)

'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

Lucius Apuleius : The Story of Cupid and Psyche

(1) ' ... I took my courage in both hands and knocked up the Master of University.... What pleased me most was the masses upon masses of books in his house: among which I saw, tho' of course I couldn't look at it properly, a volume of that glorious new Malory - the one like my "Psyche" you know.' (2) 'The story of "Cupid and Psyche", which Lewis read over Christmas, is one episode in "The Golden Ass" of Apuleius (b.c. AD 114). He read it in "The Story of Cupid and Psyche", translated by William Adlington, Temple Classics (1903)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis      Print: Book

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