Pollard, Elizabeth Ann – Fabrizio Conti (eds.) : Nemo non metuit. Magic in the Roman World

Elizabeth Ann Pollard – Fabrizio Conti (eds.),
Nemo non metuit. Magic in the Roman World

Budapest 2022

ISBN 978-615-6405-44-9 (softcover)


554 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 29,7 x 21 cm; broschiert/softcover

CHAPTER 1

Magical Gems. A Roman development of Etruscan, Greek and Phoenician scarab amulets (8th – 5th c. BCE)

Ronaldo G. Gurgel Pereira

CHAPTER 2

Change and Continuity in Curse Tablets from the Roman World

Charlotte Spence

CHAPTER 3

Pursuing Health by Pursuing Disease. The Use of Spells and Amulets to Address Malaria in Roman Antiquity

Yvette Hunt

CHAPTER 4

“Erotic” Spells, Stalking, and the Exclusus Amator in Ancient Rome

Elizabeth Ann Pollard

CHAPTER 5

Magic to steal, magic to love, magic to heal: veneficia, defixiones, devotiones in the Naturalis historia by Plinius the Elder

Alfredo Viscomi

CHAPTER 6

Cursing Patterns and Religious Belief. Studying the Prevalence of “Judicial Prayers” in Roman Britain

Madeline Line

CHAPTER 7

How Lucan Kills Magic. Magic and the vates in Book Six of Lucan’s Bellum Civile

Caolán Mac An Aircinn

CHAPTER 8

Abjection and Anxiety: The Metamorphosis of the Roman Literary Witch

Nicole Kimball

CHAPTER 9

Foreseeing the Future: The Role of Women between Magic and Divination

Angelica Flandoli

CHAPTER 10

Orpheus and the Evolution of the Roman Witch

Britta Ager

CHAPTER 11

Memories of Apollonius of Tyana: Sorcerer, Holy Man and Rival of Jesus Christ

Semíramis Corsi Silva

CHAPTER 12

Si Crimina Demas: Necromancy in Roman Literature and Statius’ Transgressive Manto

Anna Everett Beek

CHAPTER 13

The Magic of Isis-Fortuna in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

Ashli Baker

CHAPTER 14

Pagan and Christian Identities in the Later Roman Empire: Maximus of Turin and His Sermons on Magic and Superstition

Fabrizio Conti

CHAPTER 15

A World Imbued with Sorcery? The Fight between Christian and non-Christian Powers in Fourth- and Fifth-Century Christendom

Andrea Maraschi