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This study is the first to assemble the evidence for the existence of sorcerors in the ancient world; it also addresses the question of their identity and social origins. The resulting investigation takes us to the underside of Greek and Roman society, into a world of wandering holy men and women, conjurors and wonder-workers, and into the lives of prostitutes, procuresses, charioteers and theatrical performers.This fascinating reconstruction of the careers of witches and sorcerors allows us to see into previously inaccessible areas of Greco-Roman life. Compelling for both its detail and clarity, and with an extraordinarily revealing breadth of evidence employed, it will be an essential resource for anyone studying ancient magic.

Magic, Ancient. --- Magic, Greek. --- Magic, Roman. --- Roman magic --- Greek magic

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Magic, Greek --- Magie grecque --- Greece --- Grèce --- Religion --- Greek magic --- Religion. --- Grèce

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These essays by leading American and European scholars aim to remedy the tendency among scholars of Greek religion to ignore the evidence for what have traditionally been called "magical" practices.

Magic, Greek. --- Greek magic --- Greece --- Religion. --- Magic, Greek --- Grèce --- -Religion --- Magic [Greek ] --- Religion --- Grèce - - Religion --- -Magic, Greek. --- -Magic, Greek --- Grèce -

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Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in reality a highly pragmatic business, with very clearly formulated aims - often of an exceedingly maligant kind. In seven chapters, each addressed to an important arm of Greco-Roman magic, the volume discusses the history of the rediscovery and publication of the so-called Greek Magical Papyri, a key source for our understanding of ancient magic; the startling violence of ancient erotic spells and the use of these by women as well as men; the alteration in the landscape of defixio (curse tablet) studies by major new finds and the confirmation these provide that the frequently lethal intent of such tablets must not be downplayed; the use of herbs in magic, considered from numerous perspectives but with an especial focus on the bizarre-seeming rituals and protocols attendant upon their collection; the employment of animals in magic, the factors determining the choice of animal, the uses to which they were put, and the procuring and storage of animal parts, conceivably in a sorcerer's workshop; the witch as a literary construct, the clear homologies between the magical procedures of fictional witches and those documented for real spells, the gendering of the witch-figure and the reductive presentation of sorceresses as old, risible and ineffectual; the issue of whether ancient magicians practised human sacrifice and the illuminating parallels between such accusations and late 20th century accounts of child-murder in the context of perverted Satanic rituals.

Magic, Greek. --- Magic, Roman. --- Magic, Greek --- Magic, Roman --- Roman magic --- Greek magic --- 11.10 ancient religions: general. --- Magie. --- Griechenland --- Römisches Reich.

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Demonology. --- Egyptian language --- Magic, Egyptian. --- Magic, Greek. --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri). --- Greece --- Egypt --- Religion. --- Demonology --- Magic, Egyptian --- Magic, Greek --- Démonologie --- Magie --- Magie grecque --- Egypte --- Grèce --- Religion --- -Greek magic --- Egyptian magic --- Coptic magic --- Demonology, Christian --- Demons --- Evil spirits --- Spirits --- Spiritual warfare --- -Greece --- -Egyptian magic --- Greek magic --- -Religion