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Illustration of Erichtho's reanimated soldier
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Erichtho's reanimated soldier

Ook bekend as: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ
Volksverhale en mitesOndoodBeweeg skaarsToweryAntieke wêreld

The necromancy of Erichtho in Lucan's civil-war epic is the most elaborate corpse-raising scene in classical literature. On the eve of the battle of Pharsalus the witch picks a dead soldier, pumps the body full of blood and poisons and bullies its ghost into returning to speak. The scene made her the archetypal necromancer for Dante, Marston and Goethe. It set the pattern of the dead raised unwillingly, by one person's power, for that person's purposes.12

Veg daarteen
Eerste opgeteken
61
Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65
Oorsprong
Roman (literary)
Italië, Griekeland
Wat dit veroorsaak
Towery
A Thessalian witch forces a dead man's spirit back into his corpse to make it prophesy.
Hoe jy een word
A freshly killed soldier chosen from a battlefield because his lungs are intact and can still produce a voice.
Hoe dit beweeg
Beweeg skaars
The corpse is made to speak; the surviving summaries do not describe it moving about.
Intelligensie
'n Bietjie intelligensie
Swak plekke
  • the rite ends with the body's burial, which releases him

Wanneer het dit eerste verskyn?

Antieke wêreldMiddeleeue1500 tot 18991900 tot 19671968 tot 19992000 tot 20092010 tot vandag61

Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65

veldnotas

Wat die bronne sê

1

Erichtho lives among graves, gibbets and battlefields and builds her spells from corpses12

2

She fills the body with warm blood, 'lunar poison' and other substances12

3

The spirit refuses to re-enter until she threatens the powers of the underworld12

4

The dead man describes civil war among the shades and gives an ambiguous prophecy to Sextus Pompey12

5

Scholars read the scene as a dark inversion of Aeneas's visit to the Sibyl in Virgil12

6

Dante has Virgil say Erichtho once sent him to the bottom of Hell12

Bronne

  1. Erichtho - Wikipedia
  2. Pharsalia - Wikipedia

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Volksverhale uit dieselfde lande

VrykolakasGreek, 1645PhilinnionAncient Greek, 150The corpse of ThelyphronRoman (literary), 170Vampire of VeniceVenetian (Italy), 1576Vrykolakas of MykonosGreek, 1701BouplagosAncient Greek / Roman, 150

Selfde era: Antieke wêreld

Ishtar's army of the deadMesopotamian (Akkadian), 1000 v.C.Lugnano child burialLate Roman (Italy), 450PolykritosAncient Greek, 150
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