Magic and Magicians in The Greco-Roman World by Matthew W Dickie (2005).pdf

MAGIC AND MAGICIANS IN THE GRECO-

ROMAN WORLD

This absorbing work assembles an extraordinary range of evidence for the

existence of sorcerers and sorceresses in the ancient world, and addresses the

question of their identities and social origins.

From Greece in the fifth century BC, through Rome and Italy, to the Christian

Roman Empire as far as the late seventh century AD, Professor Dickie shows the

development of the concept of magic and the social and legal constraints placed

on those seen as magicians.

The book provides a fascinating insight into the inaccessible margins of Greco-

Roman life, exploring a world of wandering holy men and women, conjurors and

wonder-workers, prostitutes, procuresses, charioteers and theatrical performers.

Compelling for its clarity and detail, this study is an indispensable resource for

the study of ancient magic and society.

Matthew W.Dickie teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has

written on envy and the Evil Eye, on the learned magician, on ancient erotic

magic, and on the interpretation of ancient magical texts.

MAGIC AND MAGICIANS

IN THE GRECO-ROMAN

WORLD

Matthew W.Dickie

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published in hardback 2001 by Routledge

First published in paperback 2003

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and canada

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CONTENTS

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 The formation and nature of the Greek concept of magic

2 Sorcerers in the fifth and fourth centuries BC

3 Sorceresses in the Athens of the fifth and fourth centuries BC

4 Sorcerers in the Greek world of the Hellenistic period (300–1BC) 93

5 Magic as a distinctive category in Roman thought

120

6 Constraints on magicians in the Late Roman Republic and under

the Empire

137

7 Sorcerers and sorceresses in Rome in the Middle and Late

Republic and under the Early Empire

156

8 Witches and magicians in the provinces of the Roman Empire

until the time of Constantine

195

9 Constraints on magicians under a Christian Empire

242

10 Sorcerers and sorceresses from Constantine to the end of the

seventh century AD

263

Notes

310

Bibliography

355

Index

365

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