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The Song of the Iynx: Magic and Rhetoric in Pythian 4

1995; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 125; Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/284351

1533-0699

Sarah Iles Johnston,

Classical Antiquity Studies

And the mistress of swiftest arrows, Cyprogenia, bore from Olympus the dappled iynx, having yoked it, four-spoked,1 to an inescapable wheel, the bird of madness, [giving it] to mortals for the first time. And prayers and charms did she teach to the wise son of Aeson, so that he might steal from Medea all respect for her parents, and so that Hellas, the longed-for, might arouse her with the whip of Persuasion, as she burned in her heart.