11/6: enjoying apuleius

It was a pleasure to prepare today's translation passage for the Apuleius class.  We were reading an excerpt from the tale of Cupid and Psyche in which Psyche is tasked by Venus, her angry mother-in-law, with sorting piles of mixed-up beans, grains, and seeds.  The ants muster to help her!  The language of the passage echoes moments in ancient epic, while the scenario looks forward to European fairy-tales--and all of it is funny and smart.  Oh thank goodness I chose Apuleius for one of my courses this semester!