In a poem commonly titled for this activity, the speaker describes Anaxo leading a procession of animals in a song whose first refrain addresses a wheel named after the “wryneck” bird. Alphesiboeus (“AL-fuh-sib-EE-uss”) responds to Damon with a song about this activity in Virgil’s eighth Eclogue (“ECK-log”), which was inspired by the second Idyll of Theocritus. Two people stealing materials for this activity, one of whom appears in Epodes 5 and 17, are driven off by a farting Priapus statue in Horace’s eighth Satire. Lucius disastrously spies on a practitioner of this activity with the help of the slave-girl Photis in Apuleius’s (“APP-yoo-LEE-uss’s”) The Golden Ass. Lucan’s Erichtho (“eric-thoh”) is an expert in this skill from Thessaly. A practitioner of this skill uses it to kill the giant Talos after butchering her brother Apsyrtus in the Argonautica. For 10 points, name this skill that Medea masters with the assistance of Hecate. ■END■
ANSWER: witchcraft [or word forms of bewitching; or magic; or spellcasting; or sorcery; accept love spells, necromancy, making potions, or other specific forms of witchcraft; accept magia or pharmakeutria; prompt on herbalism]
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