Magic and syncretism in Greco-Roman Egypt
The ongoing work of postgraduate researcher Flor Herrero Valdés (UGranada/UCL) on ancient magic is to be presented in an postgraduate-only, exclusive seminar, to be held tomorrow, 24/05/2013, through the Institute of Classical Studies, UCL.
As described by the speaker, magic has been always a marginal area of study in Classics, taken as mere superstition and its texts as low quality, vulgar ones. “K.Preisendanz himself, in his Papyri Graecae Magicae (Stuttgart, 1927), spent the preamble justifying this great task of recompilation. Nowadays, however, it has again called the experts’ attention and its study has been revitalized, specially the Greco-Egyptian branch of this Magic, its Hellenistic manifestation”, she states.
Magical papyrus from Egypt, 3rd or 4th century AD (University of Michigan, PMich 3, 154 (=inv. 7) = PGM LXX).
The ongoing work of postgraduate researcher Flor Herrero Valdés (UGranada/UCL) on ancient magic is to be presented in an postgraduate-only, exclusive seminar, to be held tomorrow, 24/05/2013, through the Institute of Classical Studies, UCL.
As described by the speaker, magic has been always a marginal area of study in Classics, taken as mere superstition and its texts as low quality, vulgar ones. “K.Preisendanz himself, in his Papyri Graecae Magicae (Stuttgart, 1927), spent the preamble justifying this great task of recompilation. Nowadays, however, it has again called the experts’ attention and its study has been revitalized, specially the Greco-Egyptian branch of this Magic, its Hellenistic manifestation”, she states.