Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation, Vol. 1 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1939926165 ISBN 13: 9781939926166

Publisher: California Classical Studies, 2022

Synopsis

The magical formularies on papyrus are precious witnesses to practices and processes of cultural transmission: i.e. the creation, communication, transformation and preservation of knowledge, both in text and image, across history and between the cultures of Egypt and Greece. More than eighty such handbooks survive, some of them in a fragmentary state. Our book, the work of an international team of papyrologists and historians of magic, replaces Papyri graecae magicae edited by K. Preisendanz, which appeared almost a century ago and has been used as one of the most important sources for the study of Greek magic, augmented in the 1990s by the excellent work of R. Daniel and F. Maltomini, the Supplementum Magicum. Our project has collected all the known magical formularies and fully studied both their materiality and their texts. The facing English translation with notes replaces The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, edited by H.D. Betz. This volume, the first of two, presents the earliest of the handbooks, fifty-four in all, spanning the period from second century BCE to third century CE, in a new edition which includes the original texts in the three languages (Greek, Demotic, Coptic) with a full material description and a facing translation with commentary.

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About the Author

Christopher Athanasious Faraone is the Edward Olson Professor of Classics at University of Chicago. His publications include Ancient Greek Love Magic, The Getty Hexameters: Poetry, Magic and Mystery in Ancient Greek Selinous, and Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus. Sofía Torallas Tovar is Professor of Classics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her research combines attention to the materiality of books and documents with the transmission and circulation of knowledge and languages in Antiquity. Her publications include several volumes of papyrus editions.

Edition details

• Publisher: California Classical Studies
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1939926165
• ISBN 13: 9781939926166
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 559