apuleius metamorphoses ... summary
Latin
bk.ch
KD: 1994, 2010
1.1
1.2
1.5
1.7
1.11
1.20
1.21
author’s preface - promises, apologies and ancestry
I was travelling to Thessaly
ARISTOMENES’ tale: in Thessaly I met my friend Socrates
SOCRATES’ tale: how I became lover of a witch
Aristomenes (contd.): witches, death of Socrates
Lucius appreciative; arrival at Hypata
I seek out Milo the miser - fish buying - bed without supper.
2.1
2.6
2.13
2.15
2.18
2.21
2.31
Byrrhaena warns me against Milo’s wife, the witch Pamphile
arrangements with Fotis (and dinner with Milo)
MILO: the exposure of Lucius’ Chaldaean astrologer
Dinner with Milo ends. Night with Fotis.
Dinner with Byrrhaena.
THELYPHRON: watching body against witches, mutilated.
Festival of Laughter tomorrow. Three muggers killed.
3.1
3.11
3.13
3.21
3.28
Tried for murder - but mock-trial to the God Laughter.
Consoled by offer of statue. Decline invite from Byrrhaena.
Fotis tells of Pamphile’s magic - I ask to see.
Pamphile changes into an owl; Lucius into an ass; his reception by animals.
Taken by robbers to carry their loot from Milo’s.
4.1
4.6
4.9
4.9
4.12
4.13
4.22
On the march: failure to eat a rose; nearly disposed of.
Robbers’ hideout; their old woman; their boasts.
Tales of the loss of three good men:
Lamachus: hand in lock, nailed and amputated
Alcimus: robbing old woman, defenestrated by her.
Thrasyleon: dressed as bear, hunted, torn apart.
Food & drink. Arrival of more robbers - with a maiden snatched from her
marriage. Her dream.
OLD WOMAN (CUPID & PSYCHE): Venus jealous.
Oracle. Psyche on the rock.
4.28
4.32
5.1
5.7
5.11
5.14
5.17
5.21
5.25
5.28
Cupid’s garden. Psyche entertained. Cupid. His warning.
Sisters’ visit I: what does Cupid look like? Grumbles.
Cupid: your child will be immortal if ...
Sisters’ visit II: Psyche lies about Cupid.
Sisters’ visit III: lover is a serpent - kill him!
Psyche discovers Cupid. Wakened, he flies off.
Psyche tries suicide. Advice from Pan. Death of sisters.
Venus told by seagull. Her anger.
6.1
6.6
6.10
6.11
6.13
6.16
6.22
6.25
6.31
Psyche, rejected by Ceres and Juno, goes to Venus.
Meanwhile Venus puts price on her head. Psyche tortured.
Task 1: sorting grain - helped by ant.
Task 2: getting tuft of sheep’s wool - helped by reed.
Task 3: getting Styx water - help by eagle.
Task 4: getting beauty from Persephone - helped by tower. Curiosity,
sleep - helped by Cupid.
Cupid gets Jupiter’s permission to marry.
I try to escape with maiden - but she chooses the wrong way.
How to punish us? sew maiden up in ass-skin.
7.1
7.4
7.9
7.14
A robber reports: Lucius held responsible for the robbery of Milo.
New recruit - ‘Haemus’. His tale: how his band was wiped out.
Haemus adopted leader. Rescues maiden. Civic reception.
My reward: at mill I carry wood for sadistic boy. His death.
8.1
8.6
8.15
8.22
8.23
8.27
8.31
MESSENGER: How Thrasyllus killed Tlepolemus at boar-hunt ...
and sough Charite’s hand. Her dream. Her revenge.
Flight of the rustics: wolves, dogs, strange shepherd, dragon.
Tale of love, jealousy, and death.
I am sold to a priest of the Syrian Goddess. Her band.
Their shows - and other practices - detected.
Servant tries to replace a joint of meat from me.
9.1
9.5
9.8
9.10
9.16
9.22
9.23
9.26
9.31
9.39
I escape into the house: rabies and quarantine.
Tale of pauper and his wife. Adulterer and jar.
Priests’ oracle, departure, arrest with goblet, imprisonment.
I am sold to miller. Cruelty at t’ mill - his wicked wife.
MAID: adulterer who left his shoes behind.
Wife receives boy-adulterer. Return of husband.
MILLER: neighbour’s wife’s adultery revealed.
I reveal the adulterer. She turns to magic against miller. Funeral.
I am sold to poor peasant. His reward for hospitality from a rich man. Death
of rich man and family.
Conflict of peasant with soldier.
10.1
10.2
10.13
10.19
10.23
10.23
10.29
Soldier leaves me with a decurion.
Tale of stepmother, poison and doctors.
I am sold to baker & cook, caught eating their food. Thiasus’ festival.
The lady and the ass.
Thiasus gets a convicted woman for me.
her jealousy - and a string of deaths.
Festival: the Judgment of Paris. I run from it ... to Cenchreae.
11.1
11.7
11.15
11.18
11.24
11.29
I pray to the moon. Instructions from Isis in a dream.
Festival of Isis: procession. Return to human shape.
The priest speaks (message?). Ceremony ends. I stay in temple.
Friends and relatives. White horse returned. 1st initiation (Isis).
Farewells. Rome. 2nd initiation (Osiris).
3rd initiation - ordination.