Erichtho the Doctor? Medical observations on Lucan's necromantic episode

Silva, Gabriel A. F.

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Silva, Gabriel A. F.

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This article aims to offer a fresh analysis of two passages in the extensive necromancy episode in Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile: the ritual to reanimate the dead soldier’s corpse (6.667–73), and the surgical procedure Erichtho then proceeds to undertake (6.750–7), resembling the practice of a vivisection. The study will focus mostly on the strong connection of magic to medical traditions in antiquity, with a commentary on, and analysis of, these verses through the lenses of medical vocabulary, themes and motifs. It ultimately concludes that Lucan was familiar with the language and characteristics of the medical tradition, enriched his report with them, and was playing with his audience’s knowledge of the same.

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Lucan Necromancy Medicine Materia medica Vivisection

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http://hdl.handle.net/10451/55315

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SILVA, Gabriel A. F. - Erichtho the Doctor? Medical observations on Lucan's necromantic episode. The Classical Quarterly [Em linha]. ISSN 1471-6844. (2023) 1-9. Disponível em WWW: <URL:https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009838823000587>.