"At last, hopelessly surveying myself all over, I was obliged to face the mortifying fact that I had been transformed not into a bird, but into a plain jackass."
- Apuleius, "The Golden Ass"
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Free Online Talk · Rewriting the Psyche and Eros Story for Modern Lovers, with Alicia King Anderson, Ph.D. — Morbid Anatomy

Monday, February 17, 2025 7pm ET This talk will introduce the concepts of the speaker's new class How To Write Mythology Retellings That Sing Like the Muses . PLEASE NOTE: A link to a recording of this talk will be sent out to ticket holders after its conclusion. It will also be archived

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Celebrate Valentine's Day with Cupid and Psyche in Uffizi Gallery in Florence

Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovers out there!

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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Cupid and Psyche in Uffizi Gallery in Florence 

Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovers out there!  Today is a special day to celebrate love and romance, and what better way to do that than to admire one of the most beautiful and touching sculptures in the world: the group of Cupid and Psyche in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. This marble masterpiece [...]

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The forum and #Byzantine fort in #Madauros in #Algeria. It had been made a #Roman colony for veterans in the first century during the reign of the Emperor Nerva.
The town was the birthplace in 124AD of the Numidian #Apuleius who wrote the only #Latin Roman novel, "The Golden Ass" or "Metamorphoses", to survive fully intact. He also coined the proverb "familiarity breeds contempt."
Saint #Augustine of Hippo studied there in the 4th century.

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Another #book to come back to again & again. Magical and quite a lot silly. Like a mad cousin to #ovid & the #metamorphoses / Surprised more people haven’t considered this as an ancient part of the #surrealism canon since it feels like #Apuleius would fit. If at least some of this isn’t pure psychic automatism then I’m not sure what is. #TheGoldenAss #bookstodon