Amor und Psyche

by Apuleius, August Rode (Translator)

Amor soll der überirdisch schönen Psyche einen unattraktiven Mann besorgen, seine eifersüchtige Mutter Venus will es so. Klar, was passiert: Der junge Gott verliebt sich selbst in die Königstochter. Im Götterhimmel wie auf Erden versucht man diese ungleiche Liaison nach Kräften zu hintertreiben, es wird anstrengend für Amor und Psyche. Die wohl schönste antike Liebesgeschichte mit glücklichem Ausgang schuf der Dichter Apuleius als Herzstück seiner »Metamorphosen«.

96 pages, Hardcover

Published May 24, 2023

About the author

People best know The Golden Ass , work of Roman philosopher and satirist Lucius Apuleius.

Apuleius (Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis “Africanus”; Berber: Afulay) wrote Latin-language prose.

This Berber of Numidia lived under the empire. From Madaurus (now M'Daourouch, Algeria), he studied Platonism in Athens and traveled to Italy, Asia Minor and Egypt. Several cults or mysteries initiated him.
In the most famous incident in his life, people then accused him of using magic to gain the attentions and fortune of a wealthy widow. Apuleius declaimed and then distributed a witty tour de force in his own defense before the proconsul and a court of magistrates convened in Sabratha, near ancient Tripoli, Libya.

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