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Erichtho's reanimated soldier

Kallas även: Erichtho, Ἐριχθώ
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The necromancy of Erichtho in Lucan's civil-war epic is the most elaborate corpse-raising scene in classical literature. On the eve of the battle of Pharsalus the witch picks a dead soldier, pumps the body full of blood and poisons and bullies its ghost into returning to speak. The scene made her the archetypal necromancer for Dante, Marston and Goethe. It set the pattern of the dead raised unwillingly, by one person's power, for that person's purposes.12

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Först belagd
61
Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65
Ursprung
Roman (literary)
Italien, Grekland
Vad som orsakar det
Svartkonst
A Thessalian witch forces a dead man's spirit back into his corpse to make it prophesy.
Hur man blir en
A freshly killed soldier chosen from a battlefield because his lungs are intact and can still produce a voice.
Hur den rör sig
Rör sig knappt
The corpse is made to speak; the surviving summaries do not describe it moving about.
Intelligens
Viss intelligens
Svaga punkter
  • the rite ends with the body's burial, which releases him

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Lucan's Pharsalia, begun around AD 61 and left unfinished at his death in AD 65

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Vad källorna säger

1

Erichtho lives among graves, gibbets and battlefields and builds her spells from corpses12

2

She fills the body with warm blood, 'lunar poison' and other substances12

3

The spirit refuses to re-enter until she threatens the powers of the underworld12

4

The dead man describes civil war among the shades and gives an ambiguous prophecy to Sextus Pompey12

5

Scholars read the scene as a dark inversion of Aeneas's visit to the Sibyl in Virgil12

6

Dante has Virgil say Erichtho once sent him to the bottom of Hell12

Källor

  1. Erichtho - Wikipedia
  2. Pharsalia - Wikipedia

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