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Lucan, Pharsalia, 6.637-6.640
nan Despite the fates who owed them years to come: The funeral reversed brought from the tomb Those who were dead no longer; and the pyre Yields to her shameless clutch still smoking dust And bones enkindled, and the torch which held Some grieving sire but now, with fragments mixed In sable smoke and ceremental cloths Singed with the redolent fire that burned the dead. But those who lie within a stony cell Untouched by fire, whose dried and mummied frames
nan Despite the fates who owed them years to come: The funeral reversed brought from the tomb Those who were dead no longer; and the pyre Yields to her shameless clutch still smoking dust And bones enkindled, and the torch which held Some grieving sire but now, with fragments mixed In sable smoke and ceremental cloths Singed with the redolent fire that burned the dead. But those who lie within a stony cell Untouched by fire, whose dried and mummied frames
nan Despite the fates who owed them years to come: The funeral reversed brought from the tomb Those who were dead no longer; and the pyre Yields to her shameless clutch still smoking dust And bones enkindled, and the torch which held Some grieving sire but now, with fragments mixed In sable smoke and ceremental cloths Singed with the redolent fire that burned the dead. But those who lie within a stony cell Untouched by fire, whose dried and mummied frames
nan No longer know corruption, limb by limb Venting her rage she tears, the bloodless eyes Drags from their cavities, and mauls the nail Upon the withered hand: she gnaws the noose By which some wretch has died, and from the tree Drags down a pendent corpse, its members torn Asunder to the winds: forth from the palms Wrenches the iron, and from the unbending bond Hangs by her teeth, and with her hands collects The slimy gore which drips upon the limbs.

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

6 results
1. Lucan, Pharsalia, 2.85, 2.103-2.104, 2.114-2.116, 2.142-2.144, 2.152-2.153, 2.159, 2.169-2.193, 2.221-2.222, 6.413-6.636, 6.638-6.830, 7.770-7.776 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
2. Seneca The Younger, Oedipus, 531-626, 530 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
3. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 2.28-2.30 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
4. Heliodorus, Ethiopian Story, 6.12-6.15 (2nd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
5. Papyri, Papyri Graecae Magicae, 4.1928-4.2144 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
6. Ammianus Marcellinus, History, 19.12.14 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) 19.12.14. For if anyone wore on his neck an amulet against the quartan ague or any other complaint, or was accused by the testimony of the evil-disposed of passing by a grave in the evening, on the ground that he was a dealer in poisons, or a gatherer of the horrors of tombs and the vain illusions of the ghosts that walk there, he was condemned to capital punishment and so perished.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
ammianus marcellinus	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
anchoring allusions	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
apollo	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
apuleius,lucius	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
curse tablets	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
curses	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
daemonology	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256
ennius,model / anti-model for lucan	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
erichtho	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
erictho (thessalian witch)	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
figurines	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
frazer,james	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
freud,s.	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 255
freud,sigmund	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
funeral/funerary	Jeong (2023), Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation. 220
graf,fritz	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
graves	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
heliodorus	Jeong (2023), Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation. 220
julius caesar	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
lot divination (see sortition)	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
lucan	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84; Jeong (2023), Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation. 220
marius gratidianus	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
medea	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
metaphor	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
metapoetic diction,amputo	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
metapoetic diction,spiramen	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
metonymy	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
necromancy'	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
necromancy	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256
pamphile	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
pharsalus	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
pompey,sextus	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 272
pompey	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
puppy	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
repetition	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
rhetoric	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
science	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
seneca,lucius annaeus	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
shelley,m.	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 247
shelley,p. b.	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 247
superstition	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
underworld	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
violence	Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
virgil	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
witches	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84