Witches in the Roman world : a literary and sociological study

The subject of this study is a number of women in the Latin Literature of the Augustan Age and Early Empire who used magic. Such figures occur in the following works: Virgil <I>Eclogue </I>8 (character not named), <I>Aeneid </I>4 (Dido and the priestess), Horace <I>Sati...

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Main Author: McGuire, L. H.
Published: University of Edinburgh 1994
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.666241