Canidia, Rome's first witch. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Maxwell Teitel Paule.
• Authors: Paule, Maxwell Teitel
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1: Canidia, or What is a Witch? -- (a) Introduction -- (b) The Historical Canidia -- (c) The Problem with Witches -- (i) What qualifies as a saga? -- (ii) The Witches Meroe and Canidia -- (d) Conclusions 2: Satire 1.8: Canidia in the Gardens of Maecenas -- (a) Translation and Text -- (b) Introduction -- (c) A Statue in the Garden, a Witch in the Graveyard -- (i) Canidia's Invasion of the Satiric Garden -- (d) Integrating the Intruder -- (i) Elements of Vergil, Elements of Theocritus -- (ii) Elements of Homer -- (iii) Elements of Horace -- (e) Priapus Flaccus and the Inversion of the Iambographic Tradition -- (i) Satirizing Callimachus' Iambi -- (f) Conclusions 3: Hag and Snatcher: Canidia as Child-Killing Demon in Epode 5 -- (a) Translation and Text -- (b) Introduction -- (c) Canidia as Child-Killing Demon -- (i) Three Child-Killing Demons -- 1. Lilith -- 2. The Strix -- 3. Lamia -- (ii) Canidia's Demonic Traits -- (d) Canidia and the Puer -- Epode 5 as Response to Vergil's Eclogue 4 -- (i) Epode 5 as Commentary on Civil War -- 1. Thyestean Oaths -- 2. A Feast for Dogs and Birds -- (e) Conclusions 4: Routing the Empusa: The Iambic Canidia of Epode 17 -- (a) Translation and Text -- (b) Introduction -- (c) Sorry/Not Sorry: Horace's (Not So Apologetic) Apology -- (d) Canidia the Empusa -- (e) Canidia and the Epodes -- (f) Canidia the Anti-Muse -- (g) Conclusions 5: Venefica Minor: Canidia in Epode 3, Satire 2.1 and 2.8 -- (a) Canidia the Lesser -- (i) Epode 3.1-14 -- (ii) Satire 2.1.47-53 -- (iii) Satire 2.8.90-95 -- (b) Final Remarks.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 871/.01; Ancient religions & mythologies; Witches -- Rome; Witchcraft -- Rome; Magic, Roman; Witches in literature; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical; RELIGION / Ancient; POETRY / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; History -- Ancient -- Rome; Literary Criticism -- Ancient & Classical; Religion -- Ancient; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation; In literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350003897; 1350003891
• Related ISBNs: 9781350003880; 1350003883; 9781350003903
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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