Contents: Explanatory note on classical citations -- The sophist as novelist -- Eleven books of Metamorphoses: a guide to some basic aspects of the novel -- Book 1: Apuleius's dialogue with his reader -- The meaning of "Metamorphoses" -- The witty tale -- Book 2: Three fair warnings -- Book 3: A mirror held up to the reader -- Lucius' initation into magic and the symbol of the ass -- Book 4: A joke becomes reality -- The druken old woman's story -- Book 5: The old woman's tale becomes an allegory -- Cupid: the nature and function of a 'Diamōn' -- The fall of Psyche -- Book 6: Psyche fails again -- Spiritual serenity and the surrounding world -- Book 7: The bandits become a joke -- Book 8: Romantic love becomes a joke -- Book 9: Tales of adultery: experience never teaches -- Book 10: The providence of two doctors and two evil wives -- Venus where she belongs: the arena at Corinth -- Book 11: A great 'Diamōn' appears -- The providence of Isis -- The moral of the Golden Ass -- The notoriety of the Milesian tale -- An African Socrates -- The language of a sophist's novel -- The reader as listener -- Appendix 1: five selections from Apuleius' 'Florida' -- Appendix 2: Two prayers to Typhon from the Great Magical Papyrus -- Appendix 3: A hymn to Isis by Isodorus

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Contents: Explanatory note on classical citations -- The sophist as novelist -- Eleven books of Metamorphoses: a guide to some basic aspects of the novel -- Book 1: Apuleius's dialogue with his reader -- The meaning of "Metamorphoses" -- The witty tale -- Book 2: Three fair warnings -- Book 3: A mirror held up to the reader -- Lucius' initation into magic and the symbol of the ass -- Book 4: A joke becomes reality -- The druken old woman's story -- Book 5: The old woman's tale becomes an allegory -- Cupid: the nature and function of a 'Diamōn' -- The fall of Psyche -- Book 6: Psyche fails again -- Spiritual serenity and the surrounding world -- Book 7: The bandits become a joke -- Book 8: Romantic love becomes a joke -- Book 9: Tales of adultery: experience never teaches -- Book 10: The providence of two doctors and two evil wives -- Venus where she belongs: the arena at Corinth -- Book 11: A great 'Diamōn' appears -- The providence of Isis -- The moral of the Golden Ass -- The notoriety of the Milesian tale -- An African Socrates -- The language of a sophist's novel -- The reader as listener -- Appendix 1: five selections from Apuleius' 'Florida' -- Appendix 2: Two prayers to Typhon from the Great Magical Papyrus -- Appendix 3: A hymn to Isis by Isodorus

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