Spellbinding Performance: Poet as Witch in Theocritus' Second Idyll and Apollonius' Argonautica.

From: Helios | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: Duncan, Anne | Copyright information

The connection between poetry and enchantment in Greek literature is by now a familiar subject. (1) [LANGUAGE REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] The poet enchants (OUyei) his audience as a magician chants a spell or administers a drug, causing pleasure and the forgetfulness of pain in the listener. As with most other poetic topoi, this one goes back to Homer, to figures like Circe, the Sirens, and even Helen. In this paper, I will argue that two witches from Hellenistic poems should be regarded...

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