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The adventurous and allegorical novel Metamorphoses, or the Golden Donkey by Lucius Apuleius is one of the few works of ancient literature that have survived in its entirety. Along with Don Quixote by Cervantes and Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, it is one of the pinnacles of world literature. The adventures of the protagonist, who has been magically transformed into a donkey, unfold against the backdrop of pictures of life in a Roman province in the second century AD. The novel attracts with its unusual fusion of fairy tale, folklore and realistic plots, and contains many inserted short stories of erotic and detective-criminal content. Derived from Greek folklore, these plots were later used by prominent masters of fine art. Apuleius was appreciated by Boccaccio, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Voltaire and other famous writers.