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323:(vii.5) refers to the lore of some beastly lifeform in the shape of a woman, which tears the bellies of pregnant mothers and devours their fetuses. An anonymous commentator on the passage states this is a reference to the Lamia, but muddlingly combines this with Aristotle's subsequent comments and describes her as a Scythian of the
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folk tradition, the Lamia has survived and retained many of her traditional attributes. John
Cuthbert Lawson remarks "the chief characteristics of the Lamiae, apart from their thirst for blood, are their uncleanliness, their gluttony, and their stupidity". The contemporary Greek proverb, "της Λάμιας
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A foul odor has been pointed out as a possible common motif or attribute of the lamiai. The examples are
Aristophanes's reference to the "lamia's testicles", the scent of the monsters in the Libyan myth which allowed the humans to track down their lair, and the terrible stench of their urine that
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admits in the end to fattening up her victim (Menippus of Lycia) to be consumed, as she was in the habit of targeting young men for food "because their blood was fresh and pure". The last statement has led to the surmise that this lamia/empusa was a sort of blood-sucking vampiress.
1316:. In the film, Lamia is described as "the most feared of all Demons" and having the head and hooves of a goat. A gypsy curse associated with him has Lamia torment the victim for three days before having its minions drag them into Hell to burn in its fires for all eternity.
770:' version, the monster had a woman's face and breasts, and a hissing snake protruding from the cleft of her rusty-colored forehead, and it would slide into children's bedrooms to snatch them. According to a scholiast to Ovid, it had a serpent's body carrying a human face.
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robbed her of her children, either by kidnapping and hiding them away, killing them, or causing Lamia herself to kill her own offspring. She became disfigured from the torment, transforming into a terrifying being who hunted and killed the children of others.
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Another aspect of her powers is that this empusa/lamia is able to create an illusion of a sumptuous mansion, with all the accoutrements and even servants. But once
Apollonius reveals her false identity at the wedding, the illusion fails her and vanishes.
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on the track "The Lamia". They are depicted as female creatures with "snake-like" bodies and seduce the protagonist Rael in an attempt to devour him, but as soon as they "taste" Rael's body, the blood that enters the lamias' bodies causes their death.
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cautions against the overly fantastical: " draw a live boy out of a Lamia's belly". Lamia was in some versions thus seen as swallowing children alive, and there may have existed some nurse's tale that told of a boy extracted alive out of a Lamia.
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robbed Lamia of her children, the offspring of her affair with Zeus, either by kidnapping or by killing them. The loss of her children drove Lamia insane, and in vengeance and despair, Lamia snatched up any children she could find and
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is a reworking of the tale in
Apollonius's biography by Philostratus, described above. In Keats's version, the student Lycius replaces Menippus the Lycian. For the descriptions and nature of the Lamia, Keats drew from Burton's
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It is somewhat uncertain if this refers to the one Lamia or to "a Lamia" among many, as given in some translations of the two plays; a generic lamia is also supported by the definition as some sort of a "wild beast" in the
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According to one myth, Hera deprived Lamia of the ability to sleep, making her constantly grieve over the loss of her children, and Zeus provided relief by endowing her with removable eyes. He also gifted her with a
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Meroe has seduced a man named
Socrates, but when he plots to escape, the two witches raid his bed, thrust a knife in the neck to tap the blood into a skin bag, eviscerate his heart, and stuff the hole back with
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Modern commentators have also tried to establish that she may have originally been a dragoness, by inference. Daniel Ogden argues that one of her possible reincarnations, the monster of Argos killed by
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Lamia has been ascribed serpentine qualities, which some commentators believe can be firmly traced to mythology from antiquity; they have found analogues in ancient texts that could be designated as
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Candido, Igor (2010), Celenza, Christopher S. (ed.), "The Role of the
Philosopher in Late Quattrocento Florence: Poliziano's Lamia and the Legacy of the Pico-Barbaro Epistolary Controversy",
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Horace makes a related joke, referring to the aforementioned Lucius Aelius Lamia the praetor as "Lamus", in this instance regarded as the founding figure of the city of the
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wrote in two plays an identically worded list of foul-smelling objects which included the "Lamia's testicles", thus making Lamia's gender ambiguous. This was later incorporated into
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and other sources which comprise the sources for building an "archetypal" picture of Lamia do not designate her as a dragoness, or give her explicit serpentine descriptions.
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It has been cautioned that there may not be great import in the label "lamiae" here beyond derogatory insult, and
Apuleius uses the label rather indescriminately elsewhere.
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Tristan Travis sees the mythological monster relocated to 1970s Chicago, where she takes bloody vengeance on sex offenders while the cops try to figure out the mystery.
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In later classical periods, around the 1st century A. D., the conception of this Lamia shifted to that of a sultry seductress who enticed young men and devoured them.
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was as if she could not see, allowing her citizens free rein for any conduct without supervision, giving rise to the folk myth that she places her eyes in a vessel.
814:. These monsters had a woman's torso and beastly hands, and "all the lower part was snake, ending in the snake's baleful head". The idea that these creatures were
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Keats made a note to this effect at the end of the first page in the fair copy he made: see
William E. Harrold, "Keats' 'Lamia' and Peacock's 'Rhododaphne'".
1844:(New York: Oxford UP, 1991), s.v. "Lamia" (drawing upon Diodorus Siculus 22.41; Suidas "Lamia"; Plutarch "On Being a Busy-Body" 2; Scholiast on Aristophanes'
1353:, Lamia serves as the primary antagonist, depicted as an ancient succubus who prolongs her life by drinking the blood of her children and grandchildren.
1476:. Although the lower body of Draper's Lamia is human, he alludes to her serpentine history by draping a shed snakeskin about her waist. In Renaissance
607:) on your bosom, and it is a snake that warms you". It has been suggested from this discourse that the creature was therefore "literally a snake". The
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as the titular lead character, a witch who feeds on the energy of her dating-app hook-ups. She eventually realizes that she is actually a lamia.
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1160:(1492), a philosophical work whose title is a disparaging reference to his opponents who dabble in philosophy without competence. It alludes to
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with large and filthy "stones" (testicles) that smell like sea-calves, on authority of Aristophanes. It is covered with scales all over.
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and as having glowing green eyes with serpentine slits, shriveled-up hands with lizard-like claws on them, and crocodile-like teeth.
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dies and she is executed for suspected promiscuity. Apollo as punishment then sends the child-devouring monster to Argos.
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lingered in the clothing of Aristomenes, which they showered upon him after carving out his friend Sophocles's heart.
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features a character named Lamia, an android mother, who has removable eyes and the ability to shapeshift.
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who seduced young men to satisfy their sexual appetite and fed on their flesh afterward. An account of
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sarcasm was uttered by Demetrius's father, among others. The same joke was used in theatrical
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One evidence this may be a double of the Lamia comes from Plutarch, who equates the word
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the proper term. For Apollonius in speech declares that the seductress is "one of the
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beings. These include the half-woman, half-snake beasts of the "Libyan myth" told by
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Felton, D. (2013). "Apuleius' Cupid Considered as a Lamia (Metamorphoses 5.17–18)".
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Lamia receives a section in Georgios Megas and Helen Colaclides,
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4.25. Where Felton gives "mormolyces", Ogden "renders as "bogey".
2466:
Lexicon: post Ludolphum Kusterum ad codices manuscriptos. K - Psi
2309:
1508:
1472:
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which was played repeatedly to great acclaim under its dedicatee
1097:. The basis of this identification is the variant maternities of
900:
891:
Christian writers also warned against the seductive potential of
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in this sense is however considered atypical by one commentator.
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are called lamía, and that all these refer to frightful beings.
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It purports to give a full account of the capture of "Lamia of
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189:
124:
3543:
3406:, translated by Campbell, David A., Harvard University Press,
2923:
2835:
was not uncommon.. Aelian records.. a notorious prostitute.. (
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Cupid refers to Psyche's sisters as Lamiae, Apul. Met. 5. 11(
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3829:(Folktales of the World) (University of Chicago Prtes) 1970.
3528:
2403:
The Poetry of Criticism: Horace, Epistles II and Ars Poetica
360:
Diodorus's rationalization was that the Libyan queen in her
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The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters
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299:
139:
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87:
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2617:
This is given in the concluding paragraph of the chapter,
2587:
1062:(2nd century). It is noted that this character terrorized
3581:
3352:
3290:(Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2005, p. 305.
3219:
3069:
2725:
2723:
2721:
2426:
751:
The story surrounds the tragedy of the daughter of King
717:
One such possible lamia is the avenging monster sent by
674:"witches", Meroe and her sister Panthia, who are called
302:, the Lamia was originally a beautiful woman beloved of
130:
In the earliest stories, Lamia was a beautiful queen of
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2748:
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
2571:
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
2198:
2196:
2147:
2145:
2143:
2057:
from the Byzantine-Hellenistic period to Aristophanes,
1842:
Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary
1484:
and the breasts and head of a woman, like the image of
3521:
8, paraphrasing Nicander, 2nd century B.C., quoted by
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2211:
1306:
Lamia is the main antagonist in the 2009 horror movie
4091:
Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World
3628:
3616:
3324:
3081:
2718:
2019:, in Barber, Charles E.; Jenkins, David Todd (eds.),
234:
In previous centuries, Lamia was used in Greece as a
188:) also became a type of phantom, synonymous with the
4208:
4085:
Resnick, Irven M.; Kitchell, Kenneth F. Jr. (2007).
3802:"Domino Day episode 2 recap: Domino meets the coven"
3020:
2750:, vol. 2, London: John Murray, pp. 713–714
2706:
2573:, vol. 2, London: John Murray, pp. 713–714
2193:
2140:
1802:
Note the snakeskin wrapped around her arm and waist.
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that seduced young men and then fed on their blood.
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had a "scaly gait", indicating she must have had an
989:
278:
75:
3008:
2777:, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, p. 118,
2703:: "Lamia (not the usual application of this term)".
2688:
Greek Mythology: An Encyclopedia of Myth and Legend
2208:
1126:Lamia may originate from the Mesopotamian demoness
196:'s defeat of a lamia-seductress inspired the poem "
81:
72:
3697:. University of Massachusetts Press. p. 123.
3599:, vol. 1, London: Macmillan, pp. 312–313
2469:, vol. 2, Typographeo Academico, p. 2523
1073:Close comparison is also made with the serpentine
1054:One of the doubles of Lamia of Libya is the Lamia-
4108:Stannish, Steven M.; Doran, Christine M. (2013).
3661:
3425:
3423:
872:34:14 to translate "Lilith" of the Hebrew Bible.
357:(2nd century) also gave a rationalizing account.
5975:
4070:. University of Illinois Press. pp. 66–77.
3377:The Odyssey in Athens: Myths of Cultural Origins
2742:Schmitz, Leonhard (1849), Smith, William (ed.),
2735:
2190:1035; Commentary 37 to Heraclitus the Allegorist
1168:, where the Greek writer suggests that the term
4084:
3916:Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins
3873:
3345:, p. 44, as the female counterpart of the
3213:
2855:Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace
2635:
2633:
2631:
2629:
2627:
2312:to the passages whose annotations refer to her,
1790:
1789:Aristotle says there is a shark called "lamia".
1093:Some commentators have also equated Lamia with
6039:Metamorphoses into monsters in Greek mythology
3839:
3837:
3835:
3420:
3102:, translated by Jones, W.H.S.; Ormerod, H.A.,
2352:, "Witchcraft and Lamiae in 'The Golden Ass'"
1287:Lamia, also known as Ramia, also appears as a
1058:, which is described only as a giant beast by
4194:
4107:
2984:
2942:
2828:
2678:
2343:
1640:Neu pransae Lamiae vivum puerum extrahat alvo
1601:
947:(second version), with snakeskin on her lap,
652:, to banter Lucius Aelius Lamia the praetor.
2876:
2870:
2851:"The Odes: Just where do you draw the line?"
2624:
2598:
2557:
2555:
2237:, University of Michigan Press, p. 86,
955:This Lamia of Libya has her double in Lamia-
59:", depicts Lamia as half-serpent, half-woman
3832:
2511:Hamilton, H.C.; Falconer, W. edd., Strabo,
2125:
2098:
2096:
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2092:
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1436:; these were folkloric monsters similar to
880:explains that the lamia represented either
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2857:, Cambridge University Press, p. 72,
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2283:
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2157:
1916:
1914:
1378:song "Prodigal Son" from their 1981 album
1121:
1105:logic) since each name is identified with
970:Another double of the Libyan Lamia may be
576:Here, Lamia is the common vulgar term and
410:'s 17th-century envisioning of the lamia.
4040:. Oxford University Press. pp. 99–.
4034:"10 Lamia, Slain by Eurybatus and Others"
3981:
3093:
2929:
2917:
2848:
2552:
2349:
2131:Bekker, Immanuel, ed., Diodorus Siculus,
1927:. Univ of California Press. p. 174.
1409:
1402:, set in modern-day Manchester, features
1277:in a 2019 release of British tone poems.
484:), stating that Mormo and the equivalent
380:Lamia was the daughter born between King
3847:(Cambridge University Press) 1910:175ff.
3462:
3399:
3380:, Cornell University Press, p. 89,
3301:Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis
3247:Materials toward a History of Witchcraft
2813:
2770:
2684:
2527:
2525:
2523:
2089:
2039:
1920:
1703:Grandfather of his namesake, the consul
1596:The same scholium states that Mormo and
1451:
1374:Lamia is mentioned several times in the
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1137:
939:
924:
284:, "nocturnal spirit", whence also comes
36:
4068:Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece
3690:
3646:
3433:12.124 itself says Scylla's mother was
3369:
3367:
3286:, 205, as cited by Bernadotte Filotas,
3250:, vol. 1, AMS Press, p. 110,
3060:I; Bailey, D. R. Shackleton tr. (2003)
3032:
2774:Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World
2741:
2561:
2463:Suidas (1834), Gaisford, Thomas (ed.),
2278:
1911:
1668:is a more "generic term for creatures".
1195:A 17th-century depiction of Lamia from
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2502:, tr. Richard Rodriguez. 11 June 2009.
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2202:
2186:, 20.41.3-6, Scholia to Aristophanes,
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2151:
2119:
2062:
2017:VII: Language, Style and Implications"
2010:
2004:
1983:
1947:
1627:
1587:. Lybie is a personification of Libya.
1142:A lamia-like creature on the cover of
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542:
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293:
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3014:
3002:
2685:Stoneman, Richard (1991). "Vampire".
2531:
2520:
2406:. University of Alberta. p. 80.
1904:Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture
1868:, Butzon & Bercker, p. 293,
586:, which most other people would call
496:"Lamia" has as synonyms "Mormo" and "
272:). Modern scholarship reconstructs a
6034:Libyan characters in Greek mythology
3373:
3364:
2691:. Aquarian Press. pp. 178–179.
2293:The historie of foure-footed beastes
1907:. Taylor & Francis. p. 538.
1861:
1570:
1112:
4062:Pache, Corinne Ondine, ed. (2004).
3856:
3593:Rutherford, Willam G., ed. (1896),
3240:
3231:
2453:, tr. David Whitehead. 1 April 2008
2021:Medieval Greek Commentaries on the
1894:
1416:Empusa § Modern Greek folklore
1396:The 2024 British fantasy TV series
229:Psamathe, daughter of King Crotopos
24:
3919:. University of California Press.
3750:Deep Labyrinth Instruction Booklet
2883:. Walter de Gruyter. p. 116.
2340:, tr. David Whitehead. 27 May 2008
1921:Johnston, Sarah Iles, ed. (2013).
1432:Later traditions referred to many
1319:Lamia appears as an antagonist in
920:
777:'s version, the monster is called
534:
517:), the eyeless giant Ephialtes, a
338:
138:. Upon learning this, Zeus's wife
25:
6080:
4160:
2433:. Cambridge: J. Hall. p. 22.
2427:Member of the university (1894).
1342:, the character Miia is a lamia.
1201:The History of Four-Footed Beasts
990:Identification as a serpent-woman
712:
468:(10th century) gave an entry for
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5010:
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4210:Metamorphoses in Greek mythology
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3456:
3400:Campbell, David A., ed. (1991),
3054:, pp. 100–102; Latin text:
2605:In Honour of Apollonius of Tyana
2532:Skene, Bradley (2016). "Lamia".
2400:Kilpatrick, Ross Stuart (1990).
1805:
1583:Making her the granddaughter of
68:
3440:
3393:
3336:
3293:
3282:'s divorce"), XV Interrogatio,
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2771:Kapparis, Konstantinos (2017),
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2538:. Routledge. pp. 369–370.
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917:, female reproductive spirits.
441:term, invoked by a mother or a
398:
3671:, A&C Black, p. 129,
3668:1492: The Year Our World Began
3171:Crosby, Henry Lamar ed., tr.,
2877:Frangoulidis, Stavros (2008).
2565:(1873), Smith, William (ed.),
1989:
1969:
1953:
1941:
1881:
1855:
1834:
1720:, thus abbreviated "Apu. Met."
1363:The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
1221:
857:as apparations, or even fish.
821:
805:
13:
1:
4144:10.5325/preternature.2.2.0113
4126:10.5325/preternature.2.2.0113
4093:. Springer. pp. 77–105.
3996:10.1080/0015587X.1994.9715875
3349:, also of Delphi; and passim.
3214:Resnick & Kitchell (2007)
2013:"The Anonymous Commentary on
2011:Fisher, Elizabeth A. (2009),
1822:
1791:Resnick & Kitchell (2007)
1737:, a wise woman or soothsayer.
1212:History of Four-footed Beasts
1133:
847:
742:
655:
49:
4032:Ogden, Daniel (2013-05-30).
4011:Ogden, Daniel (2013-02-28).
3945:. London: Penguin. pp.
3903:10.5406/illiclasstud.38.0229
3895:10.5406/illiclasstud.38.0229
3874:General and cited references
3465:, pp. 178–179 "Vampire"
2621:4.25. Phillimore tr., p. 26.
2076:Women of Classical Mythology
1827:
1778:Lamia (daughter of Poseidon)
1447:
547:A representative example is
375:
245:
182:
113:
7:
6044:Monsters in Greek mythology
4017:. Oxford University Press.
3284:MGH Concilia 4 Supplementum
2985:Stannish & Doran (2013)
2943:Stannish & Doran (2013)
2829:Stannish & Doran (2013)
2804:19, Perrin, Bernadotte, ed.
2390:, pp. 90–91, note 114.
2026:, Brill, pp. 147–148,
1811:Lamia has human legs and a
1776:) identifies her mother as
1755:The Elizabethan translator
1602:Stannish & Doran (2013)
1491:
1356:Lamias are featured in the
1186:
1013:Life of Apollonius of Tyana
972:Lamia, daughter of Poseidon
876:(d. 604)'s exegesis on the
700:
554:Life of Apollonius of Tyana
388:, according to one source.
42:The Kiss of the Enchantress
10:
6085:
5002:
3883:Illinois Classical Studies
3719:The Modern Language Review
3481:as a category of monster".
3451:Heraclitus Paradoxographus
2958:, Harvard University Press
2287:Topsell, Edward (1607), "
2164:Heraclitus Paradoxographus
1480:, Lamia has the body of a
1420:Slavic dragon § lamia
1413:
1271:BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
1085:, Medusa and her sisters.
739:First Vatican Mythographer
523:
513:
486:
480:
355:Heraclitus Paradoxographus
306:, but Zeus's jealous wife
279:
264:
219:, and the monster sent to
170:
101:
29:
6064:Queens in Greek mythology
6059:Mythological hematophages
6024:Greek legendary creatures
5958:
5927:
5886:
5855:
5535:
5484:
5298:
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4223:
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3663:Fernández-Armesto, Felipe
3587:Scholia to Aristophanes,
3201:10.1524/phil.1977.121.1.1
1239:The Anatomy of Melancholy
1088:
785:
634:courtesan who captivated
569:
27:Figure in Greek mythology
3857:Jøn, A. Asbjørn (2003).
3691:Brauner, Sigrid (2001).
3050:, I. 562–669, quoted by
2849:Griffiths, Alan (2002),
2234:Horace's Odes and Epodes
2074:Bell, Robert E. (1993),
1529:Lamia (Basque mythology)
1296:action role-playing game
551:'s novelistic biography
335:ability in the process.
55:), inspired by Keats's "
3911:Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy
3374:Cook, Erwin F. (2006),
3156:Cohoon, J. W. tr., ed.
3143:, 5.1, 5–27, quoted by
2217:Scholium to Theocritus
1862:West, David R. (1995),
1387:The American TV series
1122:Mesopotamian connection
949:John William Waterhouse
934:John William Waterhouse
844:Hesychius of Alexandria
729:. It is referred to as
596:". The use of the term
134:who had an affair with
6054:Mythological cannibals
3968:The Gods of the Greeks
3177:37.13 (Loeb Classics).
1731:
1655:Begins with lower case
1466:In a 1909 painting by
1463:
1459:(1909), a painting by
1410:Modern folk traditions
1246:wrote an opera called
1203:
1164:'s use of the term in
1149:
1109:in different sources.
952:
937:
462:The Byzantine lexicon
60:
32:Lamia (disambiguation)
4064:"Linos and Demophone"
3596:Scholia Aristophanica
3403:Stesichorus, Frag 220
3106:Description of Greece
2932:, pp. 77, 79–81.
2599:Philostratus (1912).
2134:Bibliotheca Historica
2110: 1st century BC
1455:
1257:composed a tone poem
1232:Lamia and Other Poems
1194:
1141:
1066:, just as the dragon
1002: 1st century BC
959:of the legend around
943:
928:
895:. In his 9th-century
636:Demetrius Poliorcetes
351: 1st century BC
40:
6049:Mortal women of Zeus
5994:Children of Poseidon
5431:Menippe and Metioche
4175:at Wikimedia Commons
3651:, BRILL, p. 106
3275:De divortio Lotharii
1468:Herbert James Draper
1461:Herbert James Draper
1051:) meaning "slides".
721:against the city of
424:Hellenistic folklore
30:For other uses, see
5583:Baucis and Philemon
4956:Tyrrhenian pirates
3859:"Vampire Evolution"
3827:Folktales of Greece
3552:, pp. 284–287.
3515:Antoninus Liberalis
3505:, pp. 97, 102.
3228:, pp. 231–232.
2987:, pp. 115–118.
2647:, pp. 106–107.
2231:Mulroy, D. (1994),
2082:757; Eustathius on
1848:757; Eustathius on
1705:Lucius Aelius Lamia
1686:Demetrius's father
1326:The Demigod Diaries
1152:Renaissance writer
1060:Antoninus Liberalis
1011:In the 1st-century
986:or serpent-bodied.
932:(first version) by
905:archbishop of Reims
897:treatise on divorce
620:Lamia the courtesan
543:Apollonius of Tyana
500:" according to the
429:As children's bogey
294:Classical mythology
274:Proto-Indo-European
194:Apollonius of Tyana
46:Isobel Lilian Gloag
6029:Legendary serpents
5451:Pyramus and Thisbe
5336:Arethusa (Boeotia)
3757:. 2002. p. 34
3576:Gods of the Greeks
3318:2011-07-21 at the
3309:geniciales feminae
3242:Lea, Henry Charles
3162:5 (Loeb Classics).
3147:, pp. 103–104
2945:, p. 117, note 26)
2641:Life of Apollonius
2275:, p. 91, note 117.
2115:Library of History
2023:Nicomachean Ethics
2015:Nicomachean Ethics
1998:Nicomachean Ethics
1630:, p. 91, note 117.
1464:
1229:'s "Lamia" in his
1204:
1180:of such scholars.
1150:
953:
938:
914:geniciales feminae
859:Isidore of Seville
746: 9th to 11th
433:The "Lamia" was a
327:(Black Sea) area.
320:Nicomachean Ethics
61:
5999:Classical oracles
5971:
5970:
5346:Arethusa (Ithaca)
5153:Inanimate objects
5000:
4999:
4426:Cycnus of Liguria
4421:Cycnus of Colonae
4411:Cycnus of Aetolia
4276:Agrius and Oreius
4173:Lamia (mythology)
4171:Media related to
3956:978-0-14-001026-8
3550:Fontenrose (1959)
3540:, pp. 44–45.
3538:Fontenrose (1959)
3491:Fontenrose (1959)
3359:Fontenrose (1959)
3343:Fontenrose (1959)
3307:made note of the
3076:Fontenrose (1959)
2916:Apul. Met. 1.17.
2563:Schmitz, Leonhard
2483:, p. 91, note 114
2168:De Incredibilibus
2118:XX.41, quoted by
1840:Bell, Robert E.,
1757:William Adlington
1571:Explanatory notes
1253:English composer
1113:Stench of a lamia
978:mentioned in the
828:Early Middle Ages
759:, whose child by
678:in one instance.
638:(d. 283 BC). The
211:, which are part-
179:
110:
16:(Redirected from
6076:
5020:
5014:
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4296:Alcyone and Ceyx
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3943:Greek Myths
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1347:Gerald Brom
1293:Nintendo DS
1267:Rumon Gamba
1244:August Enna
1222:Adaptations
1015:the female
980:Stesichorus
878:Book of Job
822:Middle Ages
806:Libyan myth
670:appear two
593:mormolykeia
455:Ars Poetica
370:euhemerized
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5863:Greek gods
5782:Oechalides
5747:Messapians
5707:Hyacinthus
5690:Hesperides
5618:Cyparissus
5265:Polydectes
4960:Aethalides
4832:Hippomenes
4666:Polyphonte
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4551:Memnonides
4546:Meleagrids
4481:Hippodamia
4336:Ascalaphus
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3812:2024-02-04
3787:2021-01-04
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3119:Plutarch,
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2796:Plutarch,
2758:La'mia (2)
2369:Tertullian
1823:References
1763:as "hags".
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672:Thessalian
656:Golden Ass
366:Heraclitus
227:to avenge
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5777:Narcissus
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5678:Phaethusa
5517:Siproites
5507:Leucippus
5299:Landforms
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5215:Cragaleus
5175:Anaxarete
5129:Myrmidons
5092:Humanoids
5043:Charybdis
4965:Alcimedon
4937:Theophane
4857:Melanippe
4807:Galanthis
4772:Cephissus
4747:Ascalabus
4742:Aristaeus
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4686:Schoeneus
4656:Philomela
4631:Peristera
4611:Pandareus
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3100:Pausanias
3066:, Book I.
2800:Demetrius
2514:Geography
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2262:The Wasps
1966:, Book 2.
1828:Citations
1813:snakeskin
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1688:Antigonus
1554:Shahmaran
1486:hypocrisy
1457:The Lamia
1448:Fine arts
1351:Lost Gods
1178:hypocrisy
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376:Genealogy
315:Aristotle
252:scholiast
246:Etymology
177:translit.
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5807:Platanus
5797:Picolous
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3141:Orations
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2567:"La'mia"
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2354:Folklore
2265:, 1035;
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1585:Poseidon
1539:Melusine
1534:Lamnidae
1524:Lamashtu
1492:See also
1438:vampires
1187:Bestiary
1162:Plutarch
1128:Lamashtu
1035:Coroebus
757:Psamathe
753:Crotopus
727:Coroebus
701:Kindreds
662:Apuleius
584:empousai
435:bogeyman
236:bogeyman
153:insomnia
149:prophecy
6069:Succubi
6004:Daimons
5935:Acantha
5868:Kobalos
5792:Phyllis
5787:Philyra
5772:Myrsine
5722:Libanus
5588:Calamus
5573:Anethus
5568:Ampelus
5492:Caeneus
5476:Sybaris
5456:Rhodope
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5351:Asteria
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5185:Arsinoë
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4271:Aesacus
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3735:"Lamia"
3568:scholia
3563:Odyssey
3431:Odyssey
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3057:Thebais
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1964:Libyica
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1381:Killers
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