For All Time: An Examination of Romantic Love Through Curse Tablets
The current prevailing model for the study of gender and sexuality in Greco-Roman antiquity defines relationships as based upon either power or penetration. Through analysis of the amatory defixiones, or curse tablets, it will be demonstrated that romantic love, in addition to relationships based on domination and familial and political alliances, existed in the classical world.
Birth prevention before the era of modern contraception
It is generally agreed that the Gynaecology of Soranus is the most rational medical treatise on birth control in the classical literature.
Ancient Spellcasting
This dichotomy is clearly the partial result of the ancients
Roman Agricultural Magic
In this dissertation, I examine the magical practices of Roman farmers, primarily through the Latin farming manuals.
Defining Ancient Magic: A Brief Historiography and Exploration
The purpose of this paper is to review some of the scholarly definitions of ancient Greek and Roman magic and try to decipher the ancient meaning of the subject, and possibly come to some conclusions on how the word should be defined and utilized.
Did women use magic in ancient Roman society?
One of the most popular figures in Latin literature was the sorceress. She took various forms and a number of different names in Latin, but essentially the Romans were fascinated with women who performed magic rites or claimed to possess magical powers.
Fetus Magic and Sorcery Fears in Roman Egypt
On May 22nd, in the year 197 CE, an
Pharmacological practices of ancient Egypt
Egyptian drug therapy can be regarded as having evolved from a system rooted in magic to one of empiric observation applied within a central ideology of health and disease.