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Apuleius

 

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Apuleius : Metamorphoses; or, The Golden Ass

'Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Apuleius : Metamorphoses; or, the Golden Ass

'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Apuleius : Cupid and Psyche [from The Golden Ass]

'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Apuleius : Golden Ass, The

'Translate Apuleius'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Apuleius : Metamorphoses

[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts referred to in the journals are not given separate entries based on this list] 'Symposium of Plato Plays of Aeschlyus Plays of Sophocles Illiad of Homer Arrian's Historia Indicae Homer's Hymns [the above texts are bracketed to show they were all read in Greek] Histoire de la Revolution Francaise Apuleius Metamorphoses - Latin Coleridges Biographica Literaria Political Justice Rights of Man Elphinstone's Embassy to Caubul Severals [sic] vols of Gibbon'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Apuleius : Golden Ass, The (Metamorphoses)

'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

 

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