Λούκιος ἢ Ὄνος

Name: Lucius or The Ass
Author: Lucian

aka Asinus

Lucius or The Ass

Author

Lucian

Language

Koine Greek

Year

c. 150

Country

Roman Empire

Genre

Speech / Dialogue

ancient world

graeco-roman

A short novel about a man transformed into a donkey. The surviving version of this work is possibly abbreviated and may not be by Lucian. The same story is told at greater length in the Golden Ass by Apuleius.

Translations

Vol. VIII: Soloecista. Lucius or The Ass. Amores. Halcyon. Demosthenes. Podagra. Ocypus. Cyniscus. Philopatris. Charidemus. Nero

tr. M. D. MacLeod · Harvard University Press · United States · 1967

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Collected Ancient Greek Novels

tr. B. P. Reardon, Graham Anderson, John J. Winkler, Christopher Gill, J. R. Morgan, J. P. Sullivan, Ken Dowden, Gerald N. Sandy · University of California Press · United States · 2019

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