Near the end of this novel, its protagonist eats a crown of roses during a (*) ritual for the cult of Isis.
A friend of this novel's protagonist manages to survive having his throat cut and his blood drained by plugging his wound with a sponge, only to die when the sponge falls out after he eats a whole cheese. In one of many adultery-related stories in this novel, a strange pair of shoes in his wife's bedroom leads a jealous husband to drag Myrmex around town looking for their owner. Near the end of this novel, its protagonist eats a crown of roses during a (*) ritual for the cult of Isis. In this novel, Aristomenes tells the story of how Socrates died when his heart was replaced with a sponge, and an old woman relates the oldest written account of the myth of Cupid and Psyche. For 10 points, name this earliest wholly surviving Latin novel in which Lucius transforms into the title animal and gets into a series of misadventures, written by Apuleius.
A friend of this novel's protagonist manages to survive having his throat cut and his blood drained by plugging his wound with a sponge, only to die when the sponge falls out after he eats a whole cheese.
The Golden Ass [accept Asinus aureus; accept The Metamorphoses of Apuleius before "Apuleius" is named, prompt on The Metamorphoses of Apuleius after]