Metamorphosis or The Golden Ass
Lucius Apuleius
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The Metamorphosis, also known as The Golden Ass, is one of the very few novels of the Ancient World that survived to our days; one of the two novels of Roman Literature that we can still read; and the only one preserved in its entirety (the other one being the extremely fragmentary Satyricon).
The story of the Metamorphosis, the tale of a man turned into a donkey that goes through many adventures to become a man again, inspired many other similar ones later on. However, more than just the plot, the style of the Golden Ass also made it famous.
Considered one of the precursors of the picaresque novel, The Metamorphosis was written in a language that can be humorous and energetic, while telling the misadventures of the credulous and curious main character, but also powerfully poetic, in moments such as in the episode of Cupid and Psyche, one of the most famous parts of this book, and of Latin literature as a whole. (Summary by Leni) (9 hr 55 min)
Chapters
00 - Introduction | 21:24 | Read by Leni |
01 - Chapter 1, Part 1 | 23:47 | Read by Dee Wykoff |
02 - Chapter 1, Part 2 | 21:57 | Read by Shiromi |
03 - Chapter 2, Part 1 | 27:03 | Read by hefyd |
04 - Chapter 2, Part 2 | 25:47 | Read by hefyd |
05 - Chapter 3, Part 1 | 20:23 | Read by hefyd |
06 - Chapter 3, Part 2 | 22:58 | Read by Ted Garvin |
07 - Chapter 4, Part 1 | 27:44 | Read by Ted Garvin |
08 - Chapter 4, Part 2 | 26:04 | Read by ljsei |
09 - Chapter 5, Part 1 | 22:14 | Read by Ted Garvin |
10 - Chapter 5, Part 2 | 24:44 | Read by ontheroad |
11 - Chapter 6, Part 1 | 23:08 | Read by ontheroad |
12 - Chapter 6, Part 2 | 28:10 | Read by ontheroad |
13 - Chapter 7, Part 1 | 19:07 | Read by Ted Garvin |
14 - Chapter 7, Part 2 | 23:24 | Read by Ted Garvin |
15 - Chapter 8, Part 1 | 30:11 | Read by Anna Simon |
16 - Chapter 8, Part 2 | 23:06 | Read by Anna Simon |
17 - Chapter 9, Part 1 | 35:44 | Read by Thomas A. Copeland |
18 - Chapter 9, Part 2 | 39:38 | Read by Thomas A. Copeland |
19 - Chapter 10, Part 1 | 25:20 | Read by Tim Ferreira |
20 - Chapter 10, Part 2 | 25:52 | Read by Tim Ferreira |
21 - Chapter 11, Part 1 | 27:02 | Read by Todd Ulbrich |
22 - Chapter 11, Part 2 | 30:23 | Read by Todd Ulbrich |
Reviews
PJG
Several of the readers are just horrible. The bad readers should be obvious to anyone who listens to the entire book especially the middle sections. It's a good book and should be redone with good readers.
Variable recording quality
falxjunk
The story is great. The translation is florid. The recordings are quite variable in quality, unfortunately.
mostly good sounf
A LibriVox Listener
mostly good readers. some amazing. a few too fast or bad recording quality