Ancient Greco-Roman Magic and the Agency of Victimhood
By Esther Eidinow
Abstract: This article argues that victims of magic were also agents of ritual. Focusing on an experience of hostile magic reported by the fourth-century C.E. orator Libanius, it explores how conceptions of magical power were co-created by spell-makers and their so-called victims and should be regarded as relational, that is, as emerging from the interactions of people and groups.
Academic Journal Article in: Numen, Vol. 64, No. 4 (2017), pp. 394-417.
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