Lecture 16: More Roman Witches Flashcards
what is a heroides
a collection of letters written by women to men who left them and they write about missing them
who was the author that wrote about hypsipyle and medea (the heroides)
ovid - roman poet
what did hypsipyle write to jason in the heroides
she is writing to jason after he left her for medea and stating that he doesn’t truly love her and that instead she is using erotic magic on him
saying things about how medea is super ugly and nasty and uses dark magic to get her way
how did hypsipyle even meet jason
she is from the town of lemnos where all the women go crazy and murder all the men, but hypsypile saves her dad by putting him on a boat
then jason comes and has sex with all the women and creates a whole new generation of people
he sleeps with hypsipyle and leaves her
what are ovids amores
they are love poems written by the roman poet ovid
what does ovid write in his amore (story)
he is writing to his girlfriend and saying sorry to her because he cant get hard, hes blaming magic for his ED
he is embarrassed and is blaming the supernatural, saying that this is all done by the witches
who is propertius and who did he write about
a roman elegaic poet and he writes about acanthis which is the girl he is having sex with (probably a slave or prostitute)
what is the bawd witch
witch associated with erotic elements
female pimp / madamn who is old and ugly
usually when a man is having ilicit sex
is propertius engaging in magic with the bawd witch elegaic
no he is asking a prayer and even giving a gift, he wants something bad but hes asking in a nice way
he wants the woman who drove his wife away to suffer in the afterlife
what did ovid write about the bawd witch
talked about a woman named dispas (which means thirsty for wine) who is able to preform necromany, able to control the natural world and also can shapeshift into a bird
