Table of Contents

Preface

1. Interrogating the Magic-Gender Connection - Kimberly B. Stratton

Part I. Fiction and Fantasy: Gendering Magic in Literature

2. From Goddess to Hag: The Greek and the Roman Witch in Classical Literature - Barbette Stanley Spaeth
3. "The Most Worthy of Women is a Mistress of Magic": Women as Witches and Ritual Practitioners in 1 Enoch and Rabbinic Sources - Rebecca Lesses
4. Gendering Heavenly Secrets? Women, Angels, and the Problem of Misogyny and "Magic" - Annette Yoshiko Reed
5. Magic, Abjection, and Gender in Roman Literature - Kimberly B. Stratton

Part II. Gender and Magic Discourse in Practice

6. Magic Accusations Against Women in Tacitus's Annals - Elizabeth Ann Pollard
7. Drunken Hags with Amulets and Prostitutes with Erotic Spells: The Re-Feminization of Magic in Late Antique Christian Homilies - Dayna S. Kalleres
8. The Bishop, the Pope, and the Prophetess: Rival Ritual Experts in Third-Century Cappadocia - Ayse Tuzlak
9. Living Images of the Divine: Female Theurgists in Late Antiquity - Nicola Denzey Lewis
10. Sorceresses and Sorcerers in Early Christian Tours of Hell - Kirsti Barrett Copeland

Part III. Gender, Magic, and the Material Record

11. The Social Context of Women's Erotic Magic in Antiquity - David Frankfurter
12. Cheating Women: Curse Tablets and Roman Wives - Pauline Ripat
13. Saffron, Spices, and Sorceresses: Magic Bowls and the Bavli - Yaakov Elman
14. Victimology or: How to Deal With Untimely Death - Fritz Graf
15. A Gospel Amulet for Joannia (P.Oxy. VIII 1151) - AnneMarie Luijendijk

About the Author

Kimberly B. Stratton is an associate professor in the College of Humanities at Carleton University.

Dayna S. Kalleres is an associate professor in the Program for the Study of Religion and the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Reviews

This collection is overall of very high quality and has a cohesion that few such collected volumes achieved.... [Stratton and Kalleres] offer a comprehensive look at the relationship between witchcraft, gender, and social hierarchies in the ancient, particularly the Roman, world."--The Classical Journal
"...[A] wide-ranging volume that will be a valuable resource for scholars." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Those engaged in the study of ancient magic will need to consult this volume. It offers
many useful insights and directions for future research."-- Society of Biblical Literature