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Ovid Met. 12.210-31
Apollodorus Libr. 2.5.4

Rowling, J.K. (Characters Amycus and Alecto Carrow in)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. 2007: Bloomsbury.

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Amycus and Alecto Carrow are Death Eaters (followers of Voldemort) who are appointed as Hogwarts teachers and discipline officers by Severus Snape. They take pleasure in torturing students who misbehave. Though they are sadistic and cruel, they are foolish and gullible.

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OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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