Section outline

  • Week XIII (November 24) - Accusations of Magic

    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