If Sappho had employed some of the literary devises encountered in curses, then her compositions would be also affiliated with other literary curses. Besides Homer, many other archaic poets seem to have used traditional formulae of cursing, thus to have composed poetic curses. The catalogue of poets of archaic literary curses includes the composer of the Strasburg epode (115 W), Archilochus (see for example 26, 107, 108, 177, 200 W), Alcaeus (129 V), Theognis (see for example 341-350, 600-602, 869-872, 891-894, 1087–90 W), Hipponax (128 W) and, perhaps, Simonides (537, 538 PMG) . Many of them resemble a prayer and some of them are close to the language and style of the poetry of invective.
Very few of the existing literary curses exhibit any examples of the use of magical language. …show more content…
Many of the existing curses resemble a prayer in both form and content (Archilochus 26 W, Alcaeus 129 V,
Very few of the existing literary curses exhibit any examples of the use of magical language. …show more content…
Many of the existing curses resemble a prayer in both form and content (Archilochus 26 W, Alcaeus 129 V,