Introduction The concept of narrative has become one of the most discussed themes in sociolinguistics since the 1960s. Humans have the tendency to explain the world around them through rationality which, according to Barbara (2001), brought to develop the ability of telling stories. A narrative is a story containing a series of events that take place over a specific period of time. A well structured narrative should report the events following a chronological order. The sociolinguistic researches
Introduction I P?li Literature consists of four major divisions: the canonical (pi?aka), commentarial (a??hakath?), sub-commentarial (??k?) and modern (prakara?a) texts.? Among these, the modern texts (prakara?a) cover an extensive range which includes chronicles, grammar, lexicons and sandesa-s, etc. The chronicles (Va?sakath?) record the unbroken? history of a person or an event.? ?The vamsakath? stands apart from other literary genres in P?li due to the style of its composition, a mixed verse
Now that matters of love magic have been put to rest, it is time to shift our attention to the last remaining witches of the Metamorphoses. In terms of the story’s narrative, Pamphile is after Meroe and Panthia the second witch that the reader comes across in the novel. The end of Aristomenes’ tale finds Lucius already in Hypata, searching for the house of his host, the frugal Milo. A random stranger points Lucius in the right direction, albeit not without making what might later be regarded as an