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MAGIC AND MAGICIANS IN THE GRECO-
ROMAN WORLD
This absorbing work assembles an extraordinary range of evidence for the
existence of sorcerers and sorceresses in the ancient world, and addresses the
question of their identities and social origins.
From Greece in the fifth century BC, through Rome and Italy, to the Christian
Roman Empire as far as the late seventh century AD, Professor Dickie shows the
development of the concept of magic and the social and legal constraints placed
on those seen as magicians.
The book provides a fascinating insight into the inaccessible margins of Greco-
Roman life, exploring a world of wandering holy men and women, conjurors and
wonder-workers, prostitutes, procuresses, charioteers and theatrical performers.
Compelling for its clarity and detail, this study is an indispensable resource for
the study of ancient magic and society.
Matthew W.Dickie
teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has
written on envy and the Evil Eye, on the learned magician, on ancient erotic
magic, and on the interpretation of ancient magical texts.
MAGIC AND MAGICIANS
IN THE GRECO-ROMAN
WORLD
Matthew W.Dickie
LONDON AND NEW YORK
 First published in hardback 2001 by Routledge
First published in paperback 2003
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and canada
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© 2001, 2003 Matthew W.Dickie
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CONTENTS
Preface
v
Abbreviations
vi
Introduction
1
1 The formation and nature of the Greek concept of magic
18
2 Sorcerers in the fifth and fourth centuries BC
46
3 Sorceresses in the Athens of the fifth and fourth centuries BC
77
4 Sorcerers in the Greek world of the Hellenistic period (300–1BC)
93
5 Magic as a distinctive category in Roman thought
120
6 Constraints on magicians in the Late Roman Republic and under
the Empire
137
7 Sorcerers and sorceresses in Rome in the Middle and Late
Republic and under the Early Empire
156
8 Witches and magicians in the provinces of the Roman Empire
until the time of Constantine
195
9 Constraints on magicians under a Christian Empire
242
10 Sorcerers and sorceresses from Constantine to the end of the
seventh century AD
263
Notes
310
Bibliography
355
Index
365
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