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The dead as sources of sickness (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


 		Keywords
necromancy
Period
5th century BCE
Greek Classical Age
Neo-Assyrian Empire 		Channel
Greek poets
Neo-Assyrian texts

Text
LKA 89+90:
When the spirit of a dead person has taken possession of a man … When the hand of a spirit of the dead has taken possession of a man … If it is the spirit of a member of my family or my household or the spirit of one slain in battle or a wandering spirit …

Aristophanes, fr. 322:
(A dead hero is speaking:) Darum, ihr Männer, nehmt euch in Acht und verehrt uns Heroen, denn wir sind die Geber des Bösen und des Guten; wir strafen die Bösewichte, Räuber und Diebe. Den Dieben geben wir Milzucht, Husten, Wassersucht, Schnupfen, Jucken, Gicht, Wahnsinn, Ausschlag, Drüsenschwellungen, Frost, Fieber [ … ] den Räuber aber geben wir [ … ].

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Aristophanes, fr. 322
LKA 89+90

Bibliography

Burkert 1992, 65-66Burkert, Walter. The Orientalizing Revolution. Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Period. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992.
Merkelbach 1967, 98Merkelbach, R. “Die Heroen als Geber des Guten und Bösen.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 1 (1967) 97-99.

Amar Annus


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