Late Antique Magic Handbooks: Contents, Scribal Characteristics, and Contacts

July 3^rd, 2023, Norwegian Institute at Athens

Organizers: Chris A. Faraone & Sofía Torallas Tovar (Chicago)

Anastasia Maravela (Oslo)

9:00              Introduction

9:15-9:45     Panagiota Sarischouli (Thessaloniki) “Historiolae in late magical papyri”

9:45-10:15   Chris Faraone (Chicago) “One Benefit of a Magical Handbook Roll: Representing Curse Tablet Facsimiles”

10:15-10:45 Richard Gordon (Erfurt) “Invocation of sacred places in the longer rolls: Geographical allusion as a strategy of legitimation”

10:45-11:00 Discussion

Break

11:30-12:00 Anastasia Maravela (Oslo) “GEMF 68/PGM XXXVI: Contact points with other magical handbooks”

12:00-12:30 Raquel Martín Hernández (Madrid) “Scribal practice in GEMF 74/PGM VII”

12:30-12:45 Discussion

Lunch

14:00-14:30 Alberto Nodar (Barcelona) “On the hands of GEMF 55/PGM III”

14:30-15:00 Sofía Torallas Tovar (Chicago) “GEMF 55/PGM III, new order and new observations of scribal practice”

15:00-15:30 Korshi Dosoo (Wurzburg) “P.Rain.Cent. 39 and the use of the rotulus for magical texts”

15:30-15:45 Discussion

Break

16:00-16:30 Amphilochios Papathomas and Marianna Thoma (Athens) “Casting out Evil Spirits: An Early Christian Exorcism from Egypt”

16:30-17:00 Anna Monte (Udine) “Magical and medical handbooks compared”

17:00-17:30 Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Berlin) “Comparative perspectives on the magical rolls from astrological treatises”

17:30-18:15 Franco Maltomini (Udine) “Peculiar Features of a New Magical Handbook”

18:15-18:30 Discussion and closing

Registration is mandatory, whether you plan to attend online or in person.

To register, please send an e-mail to: vocesmagicae.project@gmail.com

Registration deadlines: 21 June (for in person attendance) and 30 June (for online attendance; the link will be circulated by e-mail on 2 July).