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Canidia, Rome’s First Witch by Maxwell Teitel Paule is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Canidia, Rome’s First Witch about?
Canidia is one of the most well-attested witches in Latin literature. She appears in no fewer than six of Horace's poems, three of which she has a prominent role in. Throughout Horace's Epodes and Satires she perpetrates acts of grave desecration, kidnapping, murder, magical torture and poisoning. She invades the gardens of Horace's literary patron Maecenas, rips apart a lamb with her teeth, starves a Roman child to death, and threatens to unnaturally prolong Horace's life to keep him in a state
Who reads Canidia, Rome’s First Witch?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Maxwell Teitel Paule
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781350080805
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Religion, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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