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 to a mediaeval cycle.
yeah, like said before Rome was built a couple of years ago, the fact that this guy didn't even go to learn Latin and discover that is not written in medieval Latin tells a lot about his knowledge of History, Languages, Linguistics and all the other sciences.
Daud2008 2 years ago