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In the third book of the Aeneid, Virgil describes how, fleeing his native Troy and hounded by the resentful attentions of the goddess Juno, Aeneas lands with his companions on an island colonised by settlers from Thrace. Establishing his camp and anxious to secure the protection of the gods for his fresh undertaking, he is about to raise a sacrificial pyre on a mound crowned by myrtle bushes when his intercessions are interrupted by the voice of one who lies buried beneath. “Heil! fuge crudelis terras,” the voice exclaims, “fuge litus avarum”:
Ah! flee these barbarous lands, this covetous coast.
For I am Polydorus. Here was I implanted with
Iron-tipped spears. Now javelins like a
Harvest cover me.1
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J. G. Frazer, The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion, in (London: Macmillan, 1936), 199–235.
Wilhelm Mannhardt, Mythologische Forschungen (Strassburg, 1884), pp. 156–201.
GB 1 n, 62. 35. William Robertson Smith, “Ctesias and the Semiramis Legend”, English Historical Review II (1887), 308.
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Fraser, R. (1990). The Sacred and the Taboo. In: The Making of the Golden Bough. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20720-6_5
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