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The werewolf in the ancient world /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ogden, Daniel (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Werewolves > History > To 1500.
Folklore > Rome.
Folklore > Greece.
To 1500
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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