Section outline

  • Week VI (October 6)  Prayer and Magic

    Topics:

    ·      thanks before and after

    ·      supplication and coercion

    ·      relationships with divine powers

     

    Greek Readings: PGM I 262-347; III 494-611; IV 2241-2358; Homer, Iliad I.33-51; Hesiod, Theogony 535-557; Hesiod Works and Days 320-340; Homer, Odyssey xiv.418-436; Isaeus 8.15-16; Orphic Hymn 17 to Poseidon; Orphic Hymn 3 to Night

     

    Readings:

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

    ·      Homer, Iliad I.33-51,  Hesiod, Theogony 535-557, Hesiod Works and Days 320-340, Homer, Odyssey xiv.418-436, Isaeus 8.15-16, Orphic Hymn 17 to Poseidon, Orphic Hymn 3 to Night,

    ·      Ogden 233

     

    ·      Depew, Reading Greek Prayers

    ·      Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 6

    ·      Graf, Prayer in Magical and Religious Ritual - Magika Hiera, ch. 7
    (includes PGM IV.2785-2879, VIII.1-26, VII.756-94, XVIIb, VII.668-85, V.392-423, Sappho Frag. 1)

    ·      Tambiah, The Magical Power of Words

    ·      Versnel, The Poetics of the Magical Charm

     

    Supplementary Readings:

    ·      Alkhoury, Addressing the Gods with Verse and Incense

    ·      Bortolani, Magical Hymns (Introduction)

    ·      Graf, Words and Act

    ·      Mauss, The Gift

    ·      Sallustius, On the Gods and the World