Topic 5

Topics:

·      defense against the dark arts

·      amulets and antidotes

·      repairing and healing

·      thanks before and after

Greek Readings: Hippocrates, de morbo sacro 1.10-46; PGM IV 2145-2240, IV 3007-86, VII 193-221, XX

Readings:

·      PGM IV 2145-2240 (Homeric amulet), IV. 3007-86 (exorcism), VII 193-221 , (pdm) xiv. 554-626, XX (Philinna Papyrus),

·      Hippocrates de morbo sacro 1.10-46

·      Ephesia Grammata

·      Ogden 256-276, 13, 47

·      Gager, ch. 7

·      Bonner, Studies in Magical Amulets

·      Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 5

·      Faraone, Text, Image, and Medium: The Evolution of Graeco-Roman Magical Gemstones

·      Gordon, The Healing Event in Graeco-Roman Folk-Medicine

·      Kotansky, Incantations and Prayers - Magika Hiera ch. 4

Supplementary Readings:

·      Dasen, Probaskania: Amulets and Magic

·      Faraone, Vanishing Acts: From Oral Perfomance to Visual Design

·      Faraone, Transformation of Greek Amulets

·      LiDonnici, Beans, fleawort, and the blood of a Hamadryas baboon

·      LiDonnici, Single-Stemmed Wormwood

·      Scarborough, The Pharmacology of Sacred Plants- Magika Hiera, ch. 5

·      PGM IV 1596-1715, VII 260-71, VII 311-18, VII 579-90, XXIIA 1-27, XLIII 1-27, LXX, CXIV, CXV

·      Greek Magical Amulets nos. 2, 4, 7, 11, 13, 24, 27, 37, 46, 38

·      Heim, Incantamenta magica graeca et latina

·      Supplementum Magicum nos. 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 13, 18