What is included with this book?
Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Abbreviations | p. ix |
Introduction | p. xi |
Magic: What Is It and How Does It Work? | p. 1 |
Frazer and Tylor | p. 3 |
Malinowski | p. 5 |
Magic as Communication | p. 5 |
Levy-Bruhl | p. 7 |
Evans-Pritchard | p. 11 |
Sympathetic Magic | p. 14 |
Magic and the Extended Person | p. 16 |
Magic and Analogy | p. 17 |
Beyond Frazer | p. 20 |
Tambiah and Persuasive Magic | p. 21 |
Conclusion | p. 24 |
A Framework for Greek Magic | p. 27 |
Magic and the Gods | p. 27 |
Divinity and Nature | p. 31 |
The Hippocratics: Magic, Divination, and Epilepsy | p. 33 |
Plato and Greek Psychology | p. 42 |
Magic and Causality | p. 44 |
Greek Magicians | p. 49 |
Magoi | p. 54 |
Gorgias, Mageia and Goeteia | p. 58 |
Other Magical Terms | p. 60 |
Conclusion | p. 62 |
Binding Magic and Erotic Figurines | p. 64 |
Binding the Gods | p. 67 |
Divine Agents | p. 69 |
'Characters' | p. 73 |
Body Parts and Health | p. 78 |
Erotic Magic | p. 88 |
Figurines | p. 92 |
Erotes | p. 97 |
Homeric Incantations | p. 104 |
Pythagoras and Empedocles | p. 105 |
The Mechanics of Homeric Incantations | p. 108 |
Obstetrics and Gynecology | p. 109 |
Verse Combinations and the Power of Metaphor | p. 114 |
Intoxication, Choking, and Gout | p. 118 |
Incantations and Divination | p. 122 |
Neoplatonic Theurgy and Homer | p. 125 |
Conclusion | p. 131 |
Magic in Greek and Roman Law | p. 132 |
Magic in Greek Law and Legal Imagination | p. 133 |
Trials for Erotic Magic | p. 135 |
Theoris, the Lemnian Witch | p. 136 |
Plato's Laws Against Magic | p. 139 |
Magic in Roman Law and Legal History | p. 141 |
The Twelve Tables | p. 142 |
The Lex Cornelia | p. 145 |
Magia and Maleficium: Magic and Witchcraft | p. 148 |
Apuleius the Magus | p. 150 |
The Opinions of Paulus and Later Law Codes | p. 159 |
Interpretationes Christianae | p. 162 |
The Medieval Inheritance | p. 164 |
Conclusion | p. 166 |
Notes | p. 170 |
Select Bibliography | p. 191 |
Index | p. 198 |
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