Section outline

  • Week V (September 28 & 30)  Healing and Protection

    Topics:

    ·      defense against the dark arts

    ·      amulets and antidotes

    ·      repairing and healing

    ·      thanks before and after

     

    Readings:

    ·      Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 5

    ·      Gager, ch. 7

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

    ·      Ogden 256-276, 13, 47

    ·      DDA Readings: Ephesia Grammata and other amulets

     

    Supplementary Readings:

    • ·       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
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    • ·       Bonner, Studies in Magical Amulets
    • Dasen, Probaskania: Amulets and Magic
    • ·       Faraone, Text, Image, and Medium: The Evolution of Graeco-Roman Magical Gemstones
    • Faraone, Vanishing Acts: From Oral Perfomance to Visual Design
    • Faraone, Transformation of Greek Amulets (Introduction)
    • ·       Gordon, The Healing Event in Graeco-Roman Folk-Medicine
    • ·       Kotansky, Incantations and Prayers - Magika Hiera ch. 4
    • LiDonnici, Beans, fleawort, and the blood of a Hamadryas baboon
    • LiDonnici, Single-Stemmed Wormwood
    • ·       Scarborough, The Pharmacology of Sacred Plants- Magika Hiera, ch. 5