Section outline

  • 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, ch. 4

    ·      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)

    ·      Betz, Introductions

    ·      Brashear - ANRW, part I

    ·      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

    ·      Smith, M. The 8th Book of Moses and How It Grew