October-November 2022
There is no stopping to our fantastic team of magoi. October 13-14 we held our conference on GEMF 57/PGM IV, which was a total success. Here is the program New approaches to the Great Paris Magical Codex.
We also are proud to announce the publication of the book of essays that resulted from our careful studies of each individual formulary, and was published by Michigan University Press.
See below the Table of Contents.
I. Libraries, Codices, and Rolls
Chapter 1. Anatomy of the Magical Archive by Korshi Dosoo and Sofía Torallas Tovar
Chapter 2. Roll vs. Codex: The Format of the Magical Handbook by Korshi Dosoo and Sofía Torallas Tovar
Chapter 3. The Paleography and Dating of the Magical Formularies from Roman Egypt by Alberto Nodar
II. Compositional and Redactional Patterns
Chapter 4. Compositional Patterns in the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris (GEMF 57 = PGM IV) by Lynn R. LiDonnici
Chapter 5. The Composition of the Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden (GEMF 16 = PGM/ PDM XIV) by Korshi Dosoo
Chapter 6. GEMF 60 (PGM XIII): A Study of Material, Scribal, and Compositional Issues by Richard Gordon and Rachel Yuen- Collingridge
III. Distribution of Texts and Their History
Chapter 7. GEMF 74 (PGM VII): Reconstructing the Textual Tradition by Richard Gordon and Raquel Martín Hernández
Chapter 8. GEMF 15 (= PGM/ PDM XII): Production and Use of a Bilingual Magical Formulary by Panagiota Sarischouli
IV. Individual Recipes 367
Chapter 9. The Composite Recipes in GEMF 57 (= PGM IV) and How They Grew by Christopher A. Faraone
Chapter 10. The Rationale of Multi- Purpose Praxeis in the Formulary Tradition by Richard Gordon
Chapter 11. The Traffic in Magical Spells: Single- Sheet Formularies as Prompts for Oral Performance by Christopher A. Faraone.
Our colleague Raquel Martín organized a conference a few years ago about magical drawings. The result is this wonderful book. URL. You can see the table of contents below.
The study of magical texts of the Classical, Greco-Roman and Late Antique World has experienced a remarkable impulse since the last decades of the twentieth century until today. The so-called “material turn” in philological studies has promoted an ever-growing interest in the study of the materiality and other non-textual components of ancient documents, which has favored interdisciplinary studies aimed at a holistic approach to ancient texts. From this perspective, the articles collected in this volume offer a series of in-depth case studies of images and other paratextual elements of magical artifacts. Comparative studies, statistical analyses, image-text interconnections, and other analytical possibilities are applied to achieve a greater understanding of the magical objects in question, as well as of the belief system in which they were produced. The book illustrates the importance of iconographic analysis as a fundamental part of understanding Antiquity, its ritual texts, and its magical objects.
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