Photis Character Analysis

Photis is the attractive maid who works in the house of Milo and Pamphile. Her hair is particularly striking to the narrator, Lucius. She has sex with Lucius on many occasions, and she is the one who first reveals the secrets of the witch Pamphile and how Pamphile uses ointment to turn herself into a bird. Photis becomes Lucius’s accomplice when he steals some of Pamphile’s ointment, but when Lucius tries to use the ointment, he accidentally turns himself into a donkey. Photis tells Lucius that the only cure for his condition is to eat from a rose, but before she can bring him any roses, bandits storm Milo’s house. Photis enables Lucius to follow his own curiosity and in the process helps reveal the danger of too much curiosity.