Question

why does the wife tell the story of midas (lines 957-988)? something is changed in the story she tells from the way ovid tells it. do you know what the difference is? where might the wife have heard the story as it exists here?

Answer 1

The wife tells the story of Midas (lines 957-988) because she wants to reveal that women cannot hide anything. In other words, women are bad at lying.

The difference between what she tells and the actual story of Midas is that in the wife's story, Midas is hiding his two ears under his hair from everyone except his wife. His wife promises to keep the secret, but then she breaks it.

In the actual story of Midas, his wife does not know about his secret. Instead, the only person who knows it is a barber. The differences of both stories are the person who knows Midas' secret and also the location of where the secret is told. It is unknown where the wife might have heard the story from, but she tells many well-known stories from long time ago.

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