Need to curse a rival magician? Got crocodiles in the yard? Yearning to know the secrets of Heaven and Earth? If you happen to live in Roman Egypt, you’ve come to the right place…
Further Reading
Hans Dieter Betz (ed.), The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation (Chicago, 1986)
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Drawing down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (Princeton, 2019)
Fritz Graf, Magic in the Ancient World (trans. Franklin Philip) (Cambridge, MA, 1999)
Philip Matyszak, Ancient Magic: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome (London, 2019)