Section outline

  • Week XIV (November 30 & December 2)  - The Magician’s Craft

    Topics:

    ·      magician as religious specialist

    ·      becoming a magician - the sorceror's apprentice

    ·      tools of the trade - books and materials

    ·      Greeks and Egyptians – social contexts, Thessalos of Trales

     

    Readings:

    ·      Graf, How to Become a Magician

    ·      Moyer, Thessalos of Tralles

    ·      Ogden 13-19, 44, 45, 53, 54

    ·      PGM I 42-195, IV 26-51, IV 154-285, XIII 1-343

    ·      Thessalos, de virtutibus herbarum

     

    Supplementary Readings:

    • ·       PGM I 1-42, IV 1-25, IV 52-85, XIII 344-645, 646-734, 735-1077
    • ·       Apuleius, Metamorphoses (ch. 11)
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    • ·       Betz, Introductions
    • ·       Brashear - ANRW, part I
    • Dieleman, Priests and Prestige
    • Dosoo, A History of the Theban Magical Library
    • ·       Dosoo, Magical Discourses, Ritual Collections
    • ·       Edmonds, And You Will Be Amazed
    • ·       Frankfurter, Dynamics of Ritual Expertise
    • ·       Moyer & Dieleman, Miniaturization and Opening of the Mouth
    • ·       Ritner, Egyptian Magical Practice under the Roman Empire
    • ·       Smith, J.Z., The Temple and the Magician