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Daughters of Hecate

women and magic in the ancient world

by Kimberly B. Stratton

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

Interrogating the magic-gender connection / Kimberly B. Stratton -- From goddess to hag: the Greek and the Roman witch in classical literature / Barbette Stanley Spaeth -- "The most worthy of women is a mistress of magic": women as witches and ritual practitioners in I Enoch and rabbinic sources / Rebecca Lesses -- Gendering heavenly secrets?: women, angels, and the problem of misogyny and "magic" / Annette Yoshiko Reed -- Magic, abjection, and gender in Roman literature / Kimberly B. Stratton -- Magic accusations against women in Tacitus's Annals / Elizabeth Ann Pollard -- Drunken hags with amulets and prostitutes with spells: the re-feminization of magic in late antique Christian homilies / Dayna S. Kelleres -- The bishop, the pope, and the prophetess: rival ritual experts in third century Cappadocia / Ayşe Tuzlak -- Living images of the divine: female theurgists in late antiquity / Nicola Denzley Lewis -- Sorceresses and sorcerers in early Christian tours of Hell / Kirsti Barrett Copeland -- The social context of women's erotic magic in antiquity / David Frankfurter -- Cheating women: curse tablets and Roman wives / Pauline Ripat -- Saffron, spices, and sorceresses: magic bowls and the Bavli / Yaakov Elman -- Victimology, or: how to deal with untimely death / Fritz Graf -- A Gospel amulet for Joannia (P.Oxy. VIII 1151) / Annemarie Luijendijk.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession, Ritual magic and grimoires, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from wellcome matched “ritual magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subtitle, “Magic” in the description, “Spells” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • ritual magic· via Wellcome Collection
    • Magic· in subtitle
    • Magic· in description
    • Spells· in description
    • Magic· in subject
    • Magic· in edition subtitle
  • Retained metadata contains “witches” in the description and “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata.

    • witches· in description
    • Witchcraft· in subject
  • Retained metadata contains “Angels” in the description.

    • Angels· in description

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women and magic in the ancient world

Wellcome Collection bibliographic record

xv, 533 pages ; 24 cm

[2014]Oxford University PressEnglish
  • 9780195342703
  • 9780195342710
  • 0195342704
  • 0195342712
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