Spooky AM werewolf #folklore thoughts (as is my want): 🐺✨

The 2 most detailed werewolf stories in Roman mythology are 1) the grim king Lycaon (Ovid's Metamorphoses), and 2) the sorcerous soldier story at Trimalchio's dinner party (Petronius' Satyricon) 🧵 (1/9) Now, in western antiquity, it is really, really easy to (often falsely) categorize the ancient world into binary spheres: male, female; good, evil; beautiful, ugly; man, wolf. (Of course, this binary is 99.9% artificial + over-simplified, but still. It's a tantalizing trap (2/9)