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Auteur(s) : Paule, Maxwell Teitel
Titre(s) : Canidia, Rome's first witch [Texte imprimé] / Maxwell Teitel Paule
Publication : London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017
Description matérielle : 218 pages ; 24 cm
Collection : Bloomsbury classical studies monographs
Lien à la collection : Bloomsbury classical studies monographs
Comprend : Canidia, or What is a Witch? ; Satire 1.8: Canidia in the Gardens of Maecenas ;
Hag and Snatcher: Canidia as Child-Killing Demon in Epode 5 ; Routing the Empusa:
The Iambic Canidia of Epode 17 ; Venefica Minor: Canidia in Epode 3, Satire 2.1 and
2.8.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Canidia is one of the most well-attested witches in Latin literature. She appears
in no fewer than six of Horace's poems, three of which she has a prominent role in.
Throughout Horace's Epodes and Satires she perpetrates acts of grave desecration,
kidnapping, murder, magical torture and poisoning. She invades the gardens of Horace's
literary patron Maecenas, rips apart a lamb with her teeth, starves a Roman child
to death, and threatens to unnaturally prolong Horace's life to keep him in a state
of perpetual torment. She can be seen as an anti-muse: Horace repeatedly sets her
in opposition to his literary patron, casts her as the personification of his iambic
poetry, and gives her the surprising honor of concluding not only his Epodes but also
his second book of Satires. This volume is the first comprehensive treatment of Canidia.
It offers translations of each of the three poems which feature Canidia as a main
character as well as the relevant portions from the other three poems in which Canidia
plays a minor role. These translations are accompanied by extensive analysis of Canidia's
part in each piece that takes into account not only the poems' literary contexts but
their magico-religious details."
Sujet(s) : Horace (0065-0008 av. J.-C.) -- Critique et interprétation
Canidie (personnage fictif)
Sorcières -- Dans la littérature
Sorcières -- Rome
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781350003880. - ISBN 1350003883. - ISBN 9781350003903 (erroné). - ISBN 9781350003897
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45320055c
Notice n° :
FRBNF45320055
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