Section outline

  • Topics:

    ·       social context of accusations of magic

    ·       witchcraft and the law

     

    Greek Readings: Plato, Laws 932e-933e

     

    Readings:

    ·       Apuleius, Apology

    ·       Hunink, Introduction to Apologia

    ·       Ogden 278-300

     

    ·       Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 11

    ·       Eidinow, Envy, Poison, Death

    ·       Graf, Portrait of the Magician

    ·       Phillips, Nullum Crimen Sine Lege, Magika Hiera, ch. 10

    ·       Rives, Magic in Roman Law

     

    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

    ·       Kippenberg, Magic in Roman Civil Discourse

    ·       Rives, Legal Strategy and Learned Display

     

    Rough draft of the seminar paper is due before class April 29