Section outline

  • Topics:

    ·      thanks before and after

    ·      supplication and coercion

    ·      relationships with divine powers

     

    Readings:

    ·      Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 6

    ·      PGM I 262-347; III 494-611; IV 2241-2358; XII 14-95

    ·      Prayer handout

    ·      Ogden 233

     

    Supplementary Readings:

    ·      Depew, Reading Greek Prayers

    ·      Graf, Prayer in Magical and Religious Ritual - Magika Hiera, ch. 7

    ·      Mauss, The Gift

    ·      Tambiah, The Magical Power of Words

    ·      Versnel, The Poetics of the Magical Charm

    ·      Sallustius, On the Gods and the World