Section outline

  • Week VIII (October 20)  The Portrait of a Magician

    Outline and Bibliography due before class on October 20

    Topics:

    ·      practitioners of magic, victims of magic

    ·      women and foreigners, weirdos and quacks

    ·      social context of depictions of magic

    ·      labelling the other vs. self-labelling

     

    Greek Readings: Theocritus 2; Hippolytus, Ref. 4.37

     

    Readings:

    ·      Ogden 44-46, 55-107, 155, 157, 214-223

    ·      Theocritus 2; Hippolytus, Ref. 4.37

    ·      Lucian, Lover of Lies

     

    ·      Gordon, Magic as a Topos in Augustan Poetry

    ·      Graf, Literary Representations of Magic

    ·      Luck, Witches and sorcerers in classical literature

    ·      Spaeth, From Goddess to Hag

    ·      Stratton, Naming the Witch

     

    Supplementary Readings

    ·      Edmonds, Extraordinary People

    ·      Gordon, Innovation and Authority

    ·      Pollard, Witch-Crafting in Roman Literature and Art

    ·      Stratton, Magic, Abjection, and Gender