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Lucius. Curious about stories, spells and traveling to new places, he stays in a house where he wants to use the magic of a woman interested in magic and turns into a bird, but turns into a donkey with the wrong spell. He begins to experience all his adventures, dangers and torments at this very moment, and he constantly falls into the hands of different people and is used for different purposes.
He falls into the hands of smugglers, becomes the laughing stock of thieves, farmers, villagers and revelers, comes face to face with death, is dragged into what he calls disgusting ambitions, but eventually reaches a divine solution that will allow him to become human again. After this, he leaves himself to a modest life.
The Golden Donkey (Metamorphosis) presents the daily lives of the Greeks during the Roman Empire in an entertaining and sarcastic style, constantly moving from stories to stories and tales to tales, while also presenting the moral values of these people to the reader.
This book is divided into 11 books and each chapter offers a different adventure.
We see this book, which is among the first fantasy books, as a source for many classic books. Sometimes we see plagiarism and minor adaptations to literature. For example, in Bocaccio's book Decameron.