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Erichtho's reanimated soldier

يُعرف أيضًا باسم: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ
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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

قاتله
أول تسجيل
61
Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65
الأصل
Roman (literary)
إيطاليا, اليونان
ما الذي يسببه
السحر
A Thessalian witch forces a dead man's spirit back into his corpse to make it prophesy.
كيف تصبح واحدًا منهم
A freshly killed soldier chosen from a battlefield because his lungs are intact and can still produce a voice.
كيف يتحرك
بالكاد يتحرك
The corpse is made to speak; the surviving summaries do not describe it moving about.
الذكاء
قدر من الذكاء
نقاط الضعف
  • the rite ends with the body's burial, which releases him

متى ظهر لأول مرة؟

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

ملاحظات ميدانية

ماذا تقول المصادر

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

المصادر

  1. Erichtho - Wikipedia
  2. Pharsalia - Wikipedia

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