Trespassers Will Be Charmed on Sight: Nemesianus’s Eclogues as Apotropaic Magic
In this article, I present an interpretation of violent episodes in the pastoral poetry of the third-century Latin author, Nemesianus. Drawing on comparison to depictions of sexual violence on apotropaic amulets and art, I argue that Nemesianus intended his own poetry to showcase the apotropaic powe...
| Subtitles: | Magic and Mischief: Texts and Practices in Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Religion & theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 30, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 337-356 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Grotesque B Nemesianus B Anthologies B Amulets B Sexual Violence |
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| Summary: | In this article, I present an interpretation of violent episodes in the pastoral poetry of the third-century Latin author, Nemesianus. Drawing on comparison to depictions of sexual violence on apotropaic amulets and art, I argue that Nemesianus intended his own poetry to showcase the apotropaic power of pastoral songs and pastoral books. In so doing, Nemesianus continues a tradition of ancient pastoral authors who expended considerable effort to compare their hexameters and themselves to magical spells and practitioners of magic. I conclude with some thoughts on the Good Shepherd motif on sarcophagi roughly contemporary with Nemesianus. |
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| ISSN: | 1574-3012 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15743012-bja10063 |