| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- The Werewolf in the Ancient World -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Orthography and Translations -- Note on Conventions in Relation to the Alexander Romance -- Introduction -- The Ancient Werewolf Introduced: Petronius -- Terms and Definitions -- Folklore First: the Project of the Book -- Why Werewolves? -- 1: The Curse of the Werewolf: Witches and Sorcerers -- Homer's Circe -- Herodotus' Neuri -- Virgil's Moeris -- The Strix-witch (i): Witches, Screech Owls and Werewolves in Early Imperial Latin Literature |
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The Paradigm of the Strix-witch -- The Paradigm of the Bawd-witch -- Tibullus' Bawd-witch -- Propertius' Bawd-witch Acanthis -- Ovid's Bawd-witch Dipsas and Medea -- Petronius' Niceros and Trimalchio -- The Strix-witch (ii): Apuleius' Thessalian She-wolves -- Lupulae -- Pamphile's Transformation into an Owl -- Meroe and Panthia as Lamias -- The Thelyphrons -- The Curse of the Werewolf -- Magic and Werewolfism in Medieval Texts -- Conclusion -- 2: Werewolves, Ghosts, and the Dead -- Wolves and Death in Greece and Italy -- Wolves and Death in the Greek world? -- Etruscan Aita-Calu |
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The Etruscan Tityos Painter's Wolfman -- The Faliscan Hirpi Sorani of Soracte -- Herodotus' Neuri (again) -- Virgil's Moeris and Tibullus' Bawd-witch -- Petronius' Niceros -- Phlegon of Tralles' Red Wolf and the Talking Head of Publius (potential case) -- Marcellus of Side's Medical Lycanthropes -- Pausanias' Hero of Temesa -- Philostratus' Dog-demon of Ephesus -- Later Comparanda -- Conclusion -- 3: The Werewolf, Inside and Out -- Inside and Out (i): Carapace and Core -- Human Carapace around a Wolf Core -- Hairy Hearts -- Wolf Carapace around a Human Core -- The Identifying Wound |
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Inside and Out (ii): Ingestion -- From Man to Wolf -- From Wolf to Man -- Inside and Out (iii): Civilization and the Wilderness Beyond -- Inside and Out (iii): Civilization and the Wilderness Beyond Into the Woods -- Across the Water -- Conclusion -- 4: Werewolves and Projected Souls -- Werewolves and Projected Souls: Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern -- The Medieval Period (i): Latin and Irish Texts -- The Medieval Period (ii): Werewolves, Were-bears, and Projected Souls in Norse Texts -- The Early Modern Period (i): Western Europe -- The Early Modern Period (ii): Livonia -- The Modern Period |
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Werewolves and Projected Souls in the Ancient World -- Werewolves and Innkeepers: a Kaleidoscoping of Werewolf-tale Motifs -- Conclusion -- 5: The Demon in a Wolfskin: a Werewolf at Temesa? -- The Sources -- The Proverb -- Some Scholarship on Euthymus and the Hero -- Differentiation (i): Pausanias' Narrative vs Callimachus-Death and the Maiden -- Differentiation (ii): Pausanias' Narrative (Pausanias-A) vs Pausanias' Picture (Pausanias-B)-the Other Tale of the Hero of Temesa -- Serpentine Monsters -- The Hero in the Wolfskin: a Werewolf? -- Conclusion -- 6: The Werewolves of Arcadia |
| Summary |
Tales of the werewolf are well established as a sub-strand of the popular horror genre; less widely known is how far back in time their provenance lies. This is the first book in any language devoted to the werewolf tales that survive from antiquity, exploring their place alongside witches, ghosts, demons, and soul-flyers in a shared story-world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital cover (viewed on December 28, 2020) |
| Subject |
Werewolves -- History -- To 1500
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Folklore -- Rome.
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Folklore -- Greece.
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Folklore
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Werewolves
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Greece
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191888601 |
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0191888605 |
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9780192596284 |
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0192596284 |
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