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Lucan, Pharsalia, 6.784-6.790


nanThese fears to cherish: soon returning life This frame shall quicken, and in tones which reach Even the timorous ear shall speak the man. If I have power the Stygian lakes to show, The bank that sounds with fire, the fury band, And giants lettered, and the hound that shakes Bristling with heads of snakes his triple head, What fear is this that cringes at the sight Of timid shivering shades?" Then to her prayer. First through his gaping bosom blood she pours


nanThese fears to cherish: soon returning life This frame shall quicken, and in tones which reach Even the timorous ear shall speak the man. If I have power the Stygian lakes to show, The bank that sounds with fire, the fury band, And giants lettered, and the hound that shakes Bristling with heads of snakes his triple head, What fear is this that cringes at the sight Of timid shivering shades?" Then to her prayer. First through his gaping bosom blood she pours


nanThese fears to cherish: soon returning life This frame shall quicken, and in tones which reach Even the timorous ear shall speak the man. If I have power the Stygian lakes to show, The bank that sounds with fire, the fury band, And giants lettered, and the hound that shakes Bristling with heads of snakes his triple head, What fear is this that cringes at the sight Of timid shivering shades?" Then to her prayer. First through his gaping bosom blood she pours


nanThese fears to cherish: soon returning life This frame shall quicken, and in tones which reach Even the timorous ear shall speak the man. If I have power the Stygian lakes to show, The bank that sounds with fire, the fury band, And giants lettered, and the hound that shakes Bristling with heads of snakes his triple head, What fear is this that cringes at the sight Of timid shivering shades?" Then to her prayer. First through his gaping bosom blood she pours


nanThese fears to cherish: soon returning life This frame shall quicken, and in tones which reach Even the timorous ear shall speak the man. If I have power the Stygian lakes to show, The bank that sounds with fire, the fury band, And giants lettered, and the hound that shakes Bristling with heads of snakes his triple head, What fear is this that cringes at the sight Of timid shivering shades?" Then to her prayer. First through his gaping bosom blood she pours


nanThese fears to cherish: soon returning life This frame shall quicken, and in tones which reach Even the timorous ear shall speak the man. If I have power the Stygian lakes to show, The bank that sounds with fire, the fury band, And giants lettered, and the hound that shakes Bristling with heads of snakes his triple head, What fear is this that cringes at the sight Of timid shivering shades?" Then to her prayer. First through his gaping bosom blood she pours


nanStill fervent, washing from his wounds the gore. Then copious poisons from the moon distils Mixed with all monstrous things which Nature's pangs Bring to untimely birth; the froth from dogsStricken with madness, foaming at the stream; A lynx's entrails: and the knot that grows Upon the fell hyaena; flesh of stags Fed upon serpents; and the sucking fish Which holds the vessel back though eastern winds Make bend the canvas; dragon's eyes; and stones


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

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1. Homer, Iliad, 15.582, 16.584, 16.744, 16.754, 16.812, 16.843 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

16.584. /and he fell headlong upon the corpse, and death, that slayeth the spirit, was shed about him. Then over Patroclus came grief for his slain comrade, and he charged through the foremost fighters like a fleet falcon that driveth in flight daws and starlings; even so straight against the Lycians, O Patroclus, master of horsemen 16.812. /from their cars at his first coming with his chariot to learn his lesson of war. He it was that first hurled his spear at thee, knight Patroclus, yet subdued thee not; but he ran back again and mingled with the throng, when he had drawn forth the ashen spear from the flesh, and he abode not 16.843. /to the hollow ships, till thou hast cloven about the breast of man-slaying Hector the tunic red with his blood. So, I ween, spake he to thee, and persuaded thy wits in thy witlessness. Then, thy strength all spent, didst thou answer him, knight Patroclus:For this time, Hector, boast thou mightily; for to thee have
2. Horace, Epodes, 5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.1-1.4, 1.72-1.80, 2.22-2.28, 2.34-2.36, 2.38-2.42, 2.47, 2.85, 2.103-2.104, 2.114-2.116, 2.121, 2.140-2.144, 2.152-2.153, 2.159, 2.169-2.193, 2.221-2.222, 3.169, 3.190-3.197, 3.290-3.292, 4.807-4.809, 4.816-4.819, 6.413-6.783, 6.785-6.830, 7.356-7.360, 7.445-7.459, 7.770-7.776, 9.16 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

4. Seneca The Younger, Medea, 800 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

5. Seneca The Younger, Oedipus, 531-626, 530 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

6. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 2.28-2.30 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

7. Heliodorus, Ethiopian Story, 6.12-6.15 (2nd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

8. 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.
9. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.824-6.825

6.824. of groves where all is joy,—a blest abode! 6.825. An ampler sky its roseate light bestows


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
africa,in the ph. Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166, 167
agamemnon Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 167
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
antiphony Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166, 167, 235, 236
apocalyptic literature Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
ara Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
assistant Pachoumi (2017), The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri, 44
canidia Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
cato the elder Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 130, 131, 166, 167, 235, 236
chersonese Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
closure,passim Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
consulship,its destruction in the ph. Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
cornelia,as conventional mourner Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 235
crash landing in libya Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 167
curio,lamented Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166
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
daimon of the dead Pachoumi (2017), The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri, 44
ennius,model / anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64, 130, 131
erichtho Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
erictho (thessalian witch) Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
ericthos corpse Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 265, 266
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
gods,the absence of their providence in lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
goos Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166
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
homer,conventions of Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166
homer,lucans use of Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166, 167, 235, 236
homer,model / anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 235, 236
homer,praise in Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166
homer,reproach in Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166, 236
julius caesar Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
killing Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
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
macedonia Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
magic Pachoumi (2017), The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri, 44
marius gratidianus Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
marriage Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
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,fama Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 265
metapoetic diction,fatum Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 130
metapoetic diction,fragmentum Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 167
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
naevius,model and anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 167
narrator,poetic doublets of the narrator in the poem Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 265
narrator Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 236
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
nenia,nero,reign of Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
patroclus Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 236
pharsalia,as a character Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 266
pharsalus Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
pitys Pachoumi (2017), The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri, 44
pompey,as object of lament Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 235, 236
pompey Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 130; Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
populus romanus,as central character in the pharsalia Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 130, 131
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
resurrection Pachoumi (2017), The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri, 44
rhetoric Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
scaeva Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 265
science Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
scipio africanus Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166, 167
sea power and seafaring,landings Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166, 167
sea power and seafaring Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 166, 167
selinous Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
seneca,lucius annaeus Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
seneca Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 8
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
syrtes Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 167
thetima Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
underworld Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64, 130, 131, 166, 167, 235, 236
violence Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 64
virgil,as model and anti-model for lucan Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 131
virgil Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 246
whore,cf. concubine witch,cf. magician,magos,shaman,sorcerer Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 226
witches Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 84
zeus' Pachoumi (2017), The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri, 44