Canidia, Rome's first witch Maxwell Teitel Paule.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paule, Maxwell Teitel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horace--Criticism and interpretation.

Horace.

Canidia (Fictitious character)--In literature.

Canidia (Fictitious character).

Witches--Rome.

Witches.

Witchcraft--Rome.

Witchcraft.

Magic, Roman.

Witches in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London New York Bloomsbury Academic 2017.

Summary:

"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 v. 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. "-- Provided by publisher

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

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

(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

(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

1: Canidia, or What is a Witch?

(d) Conclusions

2: Satire 1.8: Canidia in the Gardens of Maecenas

(iii)Elements of Horace

(f) Conclusions

3: Hag and Snatcher: Canidia as Child-Killing Demon in Epode 5

(d) Canidia and the Puer - Epode 5 as Response to Vergil's Eclogue 4

(e) Conclusions

4: Routing the Empusa: The Iambic Canidia of Epode 17

(c) Sorry

Not Sorry: Horace's (Not So Apologetic) Apology

(g) Conclusions

5: Venefica Minor: Canidia in Epode 3, Satire 2.1 and 2.8

(iii)Satire 2.8.90-95

(b) Final Remarks

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781350003910

1350003913

9781350003903

1350003905

9781350003897

1350003891

OCLC:

968926288