Has history been tampered with? Golden Ass by 'ancient' Apuleis compiled in Middle Ages?

Has history been tampered with? The Metamorphoses or Golden Ass is touted as the only surviving work of literature from the ancient Greco-Roman world. It relates the ludicrous adventures of one Lucius, who experiments in magic and is accidentally turned into an ass.
Numerous amusing stories, many of which seem to be based on actual folk tales, with their ordinary themes of simple-minded husbands, adulterous wives, and clever lovers, as well as the magical transformations that characterize the entire novel, are included within the main narrative.
The longest of these inclusions is the tale of Cupid and Psyche: The goddess Aphrodite (in Roman mythology, Venus), jealous of the beauty of a mortal woman named Psyche, asked her son Eros (in Roman mythology, Cupid) to use his golden arrows to cause Psyche to fall in love with the ugliest man on earth. Eros agreed but then fell in love with Psyche on his own, or by accidentally pricking himself with a golden arrow. Driven by curiosity Psyche frightens away her godly lover. Adventures follow one another but love triumphs in the end as Zeus endows Psyche with immortality and marries her to Eros. The Golden Ass text is a precursor to the imaginative, irreverent, and amusing literary genre of the picaresque novel in which Rabelais, Boccaccio, Cervantes, Voltaire, Defoe and many others have succeeded. The "Classical ass story" surfaced only in Renaissance. The main plots of it had been developed 200 years earlier by the troubadours. The Golden Ass is a logical conclusion a mediaeval cycle.

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[mithec]

before commenting: google>books>fomenko, thank you for your time.

[jrb210]

Secondly, concerning the actual proposition that Apuleius and indeed his Metamorphoses are Medieval, look no further than Augustine's Confessions where Augustine discusses Apuleius and his work, including his Metamorphoses. Augustine was a Christian writer in the 4th and 5th century CE, do you even need any more proof?

Presumably we can 'never know' that this is 'fact'.

Ignorant, conspiracy theory tripe.

[jrb210]

What if...this is all just plain wrong. Firstly, it says that "the Metamorphoses or Golden Ass is touted as the only surviving work of literature from the ancient Greco-Roman world"; no self-respecting person would ever claim such a ridiculous thing.

[AekAmir]

there is a mistake in the begining of the video apuleius was not greek he was numidian (he once said that he is half numidian half Gaetulian) numidians and gaetulians lived in numidia (modern day algeria in north africa)

[Pandracule]

It is possible that historic events and figures got mixed up by people who tried to piece it together.History is written by the winners.