The Golden Asse

The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius, which St. Augustine referred to as The Golden Ass ( Asinus aureus ), is the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety. The protagonist of the novel may in fact be the author himself. His first name is revealed to be Lucius; at the end of the novel, he is revealed to be from Madaurus, the hometown of Apuleius himself. The identification of the protagonist as Lucius of Madaurus has led some scholars to posit that the narrator and the author are one and the s