Reading Daniel Ogden’sGreek and Roman Necromancyin the rare book room of Senate House Library, I began to learn more about the ancient tradition – already centuries-long by Virgil’s time, and of which Virgil was undoubtedly aware before writing Book VI of theAeneid– of situating Book XI ...
But the LORD said to him, “Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. So Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of...