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Conference

Late Antique Magic Handbooks: Contents, Scribal Characteristics, Contacts

07.03.2023 01:00 AM – 07.03.2023 09:00 AM

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