Schlagwort: Rezeptionsgeschichte
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“Cavendum a meretricibus”. Pierre Tchekhoff about the Reception History of an ancient Sorceress
Weiterlesen: “Cavendum a meretricibus”. Pierre Tchekhoff about the Reception History of an ancient SorceressSurrounded by nature and beasts under her spell, Circe is still to this day one of the most famous sorceresses in classical literature. She is a key character for Book Ten of Homer’s Odyssey, and she reappears in Pseudo-Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, as well as in Virgil’s Aeneid. In each text, she uses…
