Section outline

  • Week XIII (November 23 & 25) - Accusations of Magic

    Topics:

    ·      social context of accusations of magic

    ·      witchcraft and the law

     

    Readings:

    ·      Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 11

    ·      Apuleius, Apology (ed. & intro by Hunink)

    ·      Ogden 278-300

     

    Supplementary Readings:

    • ·       Bradley, Law, Magic, and Culture in the Apologia of Apuleius
    • ·       Collins, Magic in Greek and Roman Law, Magic in the Ancient Greek World, Ch. 5
    • ·       Collins, Theoris of Lemnos and the Criminalization of Magic
    • Eidinow, Envy, Poison, Death
    • ·       Kippenberg, Magic in Roman Civil Discourse
    • ·       Graf, Portrait of the Magician
    • ·       Phillips, Nullum Crimen Sine Lege, Magika Hiera, ch. 10
    • ·       Rives, Legal Strategy and Learned Display
    • ·       Rives, Magic in Roman Law