Conference
Late Antique Magic Handbooks: Contents, Scribal Characteristics, Contacts
Event Summary
9:00am
Introduction
9:15-9:45am
“Historiolae in late magical papyri”
Panagiota Sarischouli (Thessaloniki)
9:45-10:15am
"One Benefit of a Magical Handbook Roll: Representing Curse Tablet Facsimiles”
Chris Faraone (Chicago)
10:15-10:45am
“Invocation of sacred places in the longer rolls: Geographical allusion as a strategy of legitimation”
Richard Gordon (Erfurt)
10:45-11:00am
Discussion
Break
11:30-12:00
“GEMF 68/PGM XXXVI: Contact points with other magical handbooks”
Anastasia Maravela (Oslo)
12:00-12:30
“Scribal practice in GEMF 74/PGM VII”
Raquel Martín Hernández (Madrid)
12:30-12:45
Discussion
Lunch
14:00-14:30
“On the hands of GEMF 55/PGM III”
Alberto Nodar (Barcelona)
14:30-15:00
“GEMF 55/PGM III, new order and new observations of scribal practice”
Sofía Torallas Tovar (Chicago)
15:00-15:30
“P.Rain.Cent. 39 and the use of the rotulus for magical texts”
Korshi Dosoo (Wurzburg)
15:30-15:45
Discussion
Break
16:00-16:30
“Casting out Evil Spirits: An Early Christian Exorcism from Egypt”
Amphilochios Papathomas and Marianna Thoma (Athens)
16:30-17:00
“Comparative perspectives on the magical rolls from astrological treatises”
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Berlin)
17:00-17:30
“Magical and medical handbooks compared”
Anna Monte (Udine)
17:30-18:00
Discussion and Closing