Carmen de viribus herbarum (GDRK 64): Between Magical Pharmacology and Homeric Didactic

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dc.contributor.authorOverduin, Floris
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-22T19:42:15Z
dc.date.available2024-07-22T19:42:15Z
dc.date.issued2021-10-10
dc.description.abstractThis paper aims to assess the nature of magic and medicine in the extant fragment of the little-known Carmen de viribus herbarum  (fr. 64 Heitsch), an anonymous didactic poem of considerable length (216 hexameters have been transmitted) from the third century CE. The Carmen , a poem concerned with the curative powers of some fifteen different plants, is an evident descendant of the didactic pharmacological verse tradition of Nicander of Colophon and the like, yet its method of composition, reusing large chunks of Homeric lines, is remarkable. What sets the Carmen  apart from the tradition of didactic pharmacology, moreover, is its fascination with magic, a factor virtually absent from the Nicandrean legacy. Next to pharmacological knowledge it repeatedly discusses effective plants against ghosts, apparitions, and witches.en
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dc.identifier.citationActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Vol. 57 (2021) , 129–142.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.22315/ACD/2021/8
dc.identifier.eissn2732-3390
dc.identifier.issn0418-453X
dc.identifier.jatitleActa Class. Univ. Sci. Debr.
dc.identifier.jtitleActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/375870
dc.identifier.volume57
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/classica/article/view/10190
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis
dc.subjectCarmen de viribusen
dc.subjectmagicen
dc.subjectpharmacologyen
dc.subjectbaskaniaen
dc.subjectwitchen
dc.titleCarmen de viribus herbarum (GDRK 64): Between Magical Pharmacology and Homeric Didacticen
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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