Dickie Matthew W. Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World

London; New York: Routledge, 2003. — VII, 371 p. — ISBN 0-415-31129-2.
Matthew W. Dickey. Magic and wizards in the Greco-Roman world.This study is the first to assemble the evidence for the existence of sorcerors and sorceresses in the ancient world. Compelling and revealing in the breadth of evidence employed this will be an essential resource.Sources.
Terms for witches and sorcerers.
Terms for the activities pursued by sorcerers.
The formation and nature of the Greek concept of magic.
The crystallization of the concept of magic: some straws in the wind.
The developed concept of magic in the later fifth century BC.
The fourth century BC: Plato’s conception of magic.Sorcerers in the fifth and fourth centuries BC.The legal position of the magician in Athens.
Cases involving sorcery falling under the graphe asebeias.
Legal remedies for persons harmed by sorcery.
The control of magic-workers who were not Athenians.
Magic-working in the Laws of Plato and Athenian law.
Holy men as magicians.
The miracle-worker as magician.
Magic-workers in places other than Athens.
Sorceresses in the Athens of the fifth and fourth centuries BC.
Drunkenness in sorceresses as a clue to their identity.
Sorceresses as purifiers and healers.
Women performing harmful magic on behalf of others.Sorcerers in the Greek world of the Hellenistic period (300–1BC).Magic-working amongst prostitutes and courtesans in Cos in the early third century BC.
Magic-working in Cnidus in the first century BC.
The larger Hellenistic world.
Old women as purifiers and healers.
Holy men and women from the East.
Mendicant sorcerers.
Magic and mystery-cult.
The emergence of the learned magician.
Democritus’ Paignia.
Bolus’ successors.
Magic as a distinctive category in Roman thought.The effect of the transfer.
Greek magical practices in Italy and Rome in the Middle and Late Roman Republic and their bearing on the transfer of the concept of magic.
Constraints on magicians in the Late Roman Republic and under the Empire.
Police actions against magicians in Rome and Italy.
Actions against magicians in the provinces.
Informal actions against magicians.
Sanctions against magicians entering religious sanctuaries.
Sorcerers and sorceresses in Rome in the Middle and Late Republic and under the Early Empire.
The Middle and Late Republic.
The background to magic-working: the religious fringe.
Sorceresses.
Learned magicians.
Sorceresses in Rome and Italy in the Early Empire.
Preliminaries.
The prostitute as witch.
The procuress as witch.
Sorceresses and wise women in Rome and Italy in the late first and early second centuries AD.
Magicians in the first and second centuries AD.
Witches and magicians in the provinces of the Roman Empire until the time of Constantine.
The learned magician.
Magicians in the households of the rich or powerful.
Itinerant magicians in general.
Wandering Egyptian and Jewish magicians.
The settings in which wandering magicians performed.
The activities of wandering magicians.
Other kinds of magician.
Sorceresses.
General standing of women as magic-workers.
Prostitution and sorcery.
Mendicant holy women.
Constraints on magicians under a Christian Empire.
Civil legislation.
Church rules and Canon Law.
The application of Canon Law and Civil Law.
Sorcerers and sorceresses from Constantine to the end of the seventh century AD.Christian clerics and priests as magicians.
The drunken old sorceress Christianized.
Haruspices.
Jewish magicians.
Charioteers.
Wrestlers.
Entertainers from the theatre.
Prostitutes as sorceresses.
Amulet-makers, amulet-dealers and utterers of incantations.
The Eastern Empire.
Paramedical healers in the West.
Wandering magicians in the Greek East.
Learned magicians.
In-house magicians.Notes.

Index.