Paper short abstract:

The famous Apuleius' novel is a brilliant Carrefour of Mediterranean cultural exchanges in the 2nd century ad, where Greek, Roman and Egyptian cultural data are artistically mixed, not only to amuse but also to edify the reader's spirituality.

Paper long abstract:

Located in Greece, this Milesian novel accounts, in the first person, the adventures of Lucius, changed in a donkey. Persecuted by the goddess Fortune, he is submitted to several probations till he gets Isis' mercy, the Egyptian goddess, who gives him back the human body. Then Lucius consecrates himself to the Goddess. He will be her priest in Rome, integrating the Postophorus' college and the quinquenal Decurion's group.