IN Rome, we have Pliny (the elder): sententiaeantiquae.com/2023/10/25/w...

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the oldest reference to werewolves in Greece may be in Herodotus (although many see the groundwork in earlier myth): sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/10/23/h...

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Psellos draws on an at least thousand year old tradition of medical texts describing lycanthropy: sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/10/28/w...

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The poem is from a collection of didactic verses attributed to Michael Psellos of Constantinople who lived and worked in the 11th century CE. sententiaeantiquae.com/2024/10/31/b...

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Μελάγχολόν τι πρᾶγμα λυκανθρωπία· ἔστι γὰρ αὐτόχρημα μισανθρωπία, καὶ γνωριεῖς ἄνθρωπον εἰσπεπτωκότα ὁρῶν περιτρέχοντα νυκτὸς τοὺς τάφους, ὠχρόν, κατηφῆ, ξηρόν, ἠμελημένον.

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