HIS 275 Chapter 1: Golden Ass - Book 1 Reading
19 Jan 2019
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Narrator, lucius, explains he is going to tell stories in the milesian mode. He is from attic stock and learned the latin language in rome. Going to thessaly to do business when he comes across two men on the road. One tells the other he does not want to hear his lies anymore. Lucius steps in and wants to hear the tale and plans to believe it. Aristomenes swears his story was true and begins: He was on his way to buy cheese in a town in thessaly. Sees his old friend, socrates, and is shocked at how worn out he looks. Socrates tell him that in his journey he was unfaithful to his with with a woman named meroe. Ran an inn and kept socrates sexually ensnared. Socrates says she is a witch with incredible powers and that aristomenes cannot judge because of this. The two go to sleep, but aristomenes wake up when the door bursts open.
