This story is set up in the same way as Ovid's Metamorphoses. Greek gods and Greek culture are incorporated into a lot of the stories in The Golden Ass. I found myself making connections between a lot of the stories I read which are translated from latin to english by translator Robert Graves. Unlike the Metamorphoses, the stories in the Golden Ass are seperated my chapters which are composed of around ten pages. There are frame narratives a lot in both stories. Both stories are filled with tragedy, comedy, love, and many transformations. Lucius, the author wrote this story in the year 160, 152 years after Ovid's masterpiece. Lucius of Patrae is the lead character and narrator throughout the story. The Greek text has been lost.
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