Böcker av Daniel (University of Exeter) Ogden

The strix was a persistent feature of the folklore of the Roman world and subsequently that of the Latin West and the Greek East. She was a woman that flew by night, either in an owl-like form or in the form of a projected soul, in order to penetrate homes by surreptitious means and thereby devour, blight or steal the new-born babies within them.

A reconstruction of the fascinating legend that developed around the figure of Seleucus, the most accomplished of the successors to Alexander the Great, investigating the rich symbolism of its constituent episodes, in which divine birth, enchanted talismans, marvellous omens, pathological desires, ghostly vengeance and dragons feature prominently.