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A Note on Medea's Plant and the Mandrake

1968; Routledge; Volume: 79; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/0015587x.1968.9716597

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Raymond J. Clark,

Byzantine Studies and History

1I wish to thank Mr H. W. Stubbs, of the University of Exeter, for first drawing my attention to this topic. 2 'This came forth first born when the flesh-eating eagle let drip to earth on the slopes of Caucasus the blood-like ichor of suffering Prometheus. Its flower coloured like a Corycian crocus appeared a cubit's height above ground, born on twin stalks, while its root resembled newly-cut flesh in the earth. Its dark juice, like that of mountain-oak, she had gathered in a Caspian shell for her magic after first bathing in seven ever-flowing streams and calling seven times in the murky night, clad in dusky garments, on Brimo who is nurse of children, nightwandering Brimo of the world below, queen of the departed. The dark earth beneath quaked and groaned as the Titanian root was severed, and the son of Iapetus himself groaned in agonizing heartfelt pain.' 3 Vol. XIV, o028-37. 4 London, 1918, II, 372-97.