This Latin reader offers short selections from the Metamorphoses of Apuleius. The original Latin text, written in the second century CE, follows the life of a man named Lucius transformed into a donkey, and contains numerous "embedded tales."

An historical and literary introduction is also included, along with accompanying notes, a complete end vocabulary, and a bibliography. Two maps and an index will supplement the text.

Ellen Finkelpearl is Professor of Classics at Scripps College, Claremont, California where she has taught for twenty years.  Her degrees are from Princeton (B.A.) and Harvard (M.A., Ph.D.).  She has worked almost exclusively on Apuleius, with a book on literary allusion (and much more), Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius (Michigan 1998) and a comprehensive annotated bibliography of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses in Lustrum (2000) as well as many other articles on Apuleius focussing on language, cultural identity and animal-human boundaries.  She is currently at work on a major conference on Apuleius and Africa (with Ben Lee, Luca Graverini and Sonia Sabnis) and a book on Apuleius, Animals, and Africa.