The biological son is part of the story of a terrible crime that Lucius hears about (as a donkey) while under the ownership of the soldier. The biological son is accidentally poisoned by his stepmother (who intended to poison her stepson) and is taken away to a tomb. But as it turns out, the “poison” was only a sedative, and so the biological son wakes up alive at the tomb.
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The Biological Son Character Timeline in The Golden Ass
The timeline below shows where the character The Biological Son appears in The Golden Ass. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Book 10
The stepmother secures poison to give her stepson, but her biological son drinks some by accident and dies. She then uses this as an opportunity to attempt...
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...so he sold the stepmother’s enslaved servant a sleeping potion instead. Everyone goes to the biological son ’s tomb and finds that he is still alive. The stepmother’s enslaved servant is crucified...
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