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In Roman literature, Erichtho (from ) is a legendary Thessalian witch. ==In literature== In the epic by the poet Lucan, ''Pharsalia'' (VI, 507—830), she summons a spirit to reveal to Pompey the Great's son, Sextus Pompeius, the outcome of the Battle of Pharsalus. She is also mentioned by Dante Aligheri in his ''Divine Comedy'' (''Inferno'': IX 23), where Virgil, possibly alluding to a lost medieval legend,〔Dante (December 31, 1961). ''The Divine Comedy 1: Inferno''. Translated by John D. Sinclair. Oxford University Press. p. 126, note 2. ISBN 9780195004120.〕 tells of having been earlier compelled by her to descend into the deepest part of hell to bring back a spirit. Erichtho is also a character in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's ''Faust'', Part 2, Act 2, as the first character to speak in the Classical Walpurgisnacht scene (II.1). Erichtho's speech to open that scene is the introduction of the Witches' High Sabbath. It immediately precedes the entrance of Mephistopheles, Faust, and Homunculus to the rites that result in Faust's Dream Life Sequence as a knight living in a castle with Helen of Troy (until the death of their child shatters the fantasy and Faust returns to the physical world for the conclusion of the play). In John Marston's Jacobean play ''The Tragedy of Sophonisba'', the prince of Libya, Syphax, summons Erictho (sic) from Hell. She subsequently sleeps with him, having transformed herself into the likeness of Sophonisba, whose love Syphax had asked her to procure for him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Erichtho」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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