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CLAS 3240: Magic in the Ancient World: Who's Who in Ancient Magic: Weeks 6-8

Magic in the Ancient World

About Who's Who

Who's Who in Hellenic Magic: Recovering Greek Sorcerers

Ogden Sourcebook Reading: Chapter 2

Graf, Naming the Sorcerer
Graf, Fritz. "Naming the Sorcerer" in Magic in the Ancient World. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1997. Ch. 2, p, 20-35.
Reading Review 8
Reading Worksheet # 8, On Who's who in Hellenic Magic

Socializing with Witches: 1: The Literary Evidence: 2: Reevaluating Ancient Practices

Ogden Sourcebook Reading: Chapter 6: Witches in Greek Literature

Chapter 7: Witches in Latin Literature

Reading Review 11
Reading Worksheet # 11 on Socializing with Witches

Harrius Potter and the Twelve Tables: Distinguishing Roman Magicians

Dickie, Sorcerers and sorceresses in Rome in the Middle and Late Republic and under the Early Empire
Dickie, Matthew. Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World. London: Routledge, 2003. .
Reading Review 9
Reading Review # 9 for Harrius Potter and the Twelve Tables: Distinguishing Roman Magicians

I Fought the Law and the Law Won: The Legality of Magic

Collins, Magic in Greek and Roman Law
In Collins, Derek. Magic in the Ancient Greek World. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub, 2008. Ch. 5 p. 133-165
Reading Review 12
Reading Worksheet for "I Fought the Law and the Law Won"

Putting the Foreign in Foreigner: Persian, Babylonian, and Egyptian Magicians

Ogden Sourcebook Reading: Chapter 3

Ogden, Aliens and Witches
Ogden, Aliens and Witches, in Greek and Necromancy., 2001, p. 129-139
Reading Review 10
Blank until complete

Daniel Ogden Sourcebook

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds : A Sourcebook by Daniel Ogden