Ultimately, Chariclea is rescued from sacrifice and is united with Theagenes at Meroe.
At the end of this novel, an embassy presents a giraffe which causes a bull to run wild before a wrestling match. One character in this work is an old woman who impales herself on a spear while trying to attack a priest of Isis. That character manipulates Peloros after sailing away with merchants from Tyre and is named Calasiris. This work opens with the two central characters captured and taken to the village of Herdsmen where they are questioned by Knemon, and the figure Thyamis incorrectly interprets a dream about having a wife and abducts one of the central characters. The central character of this work has white skin because her mother looked upon a marble statue before her birth, and that character's mother Persinna gives her away to Sisimithras, who takes her to Egypt where she becomes a priestess. Ultimately, Chariclea is rescued from sacrifice and is united with Theagenes at Meroe. For 10 points, identify this ancient Greek romance by Heliodorus, which is set in the title African location.
At the end of this novel, an embassy presents a giraffe which causes a bull to run wild before a wrestling match.
{Aethiopica} [accept {Ethiopian History} or equivalents]