Even though the concept of “magic” has suffered severe criticism in academic discourse, the
category continues to be used in many disciplines. During the last two decades, classicists …

The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha argues that perspectives drawn
from literary-critical theories of the fantastic and fantasy are apt to explore Hebrew Bible …

The Latin language is uncharacteristically rich when it comes to describing witches. A witch
may be called a cantatrix or praecantrix, a sacerdos or vates. She may be docta, divina …

This dissertation examines the formation of the secular modern nation-state of Syria in
relation to historical and contemporary perspectives on popular culture and the body …

The present paper argues that passages in the Hittite texts often understood as attestations
of the practice of black magic should instead be seen as indications of the perception and …

Ocular pathologies are a natural phenomenon that can be detected empirically. All over the
world, such phenomena are often interpreted as an index of inherent personal capacity for …

This paper will put forward the claim that Medea's fictive epistle to Jason in Ovid's Heroides
12 may be read as a legal riposte to literary tradition and shed new light on the heroine's …

En los Epodos 5 y 17 y la Sátira 1.8, Horacio retrata a Canidia, una horrible y cruel mujer
que practica ritos mágicos. Para la configuración del perfil de esta hechicera y sus colegas …

El obispo de Antioquía de Pisidia, Acacio, fue el único cristiano del que seconservan actas
consideradas de cierto valor cuyo final no fue una sentencia capital, sino la absolución, aun …

This paper presents an interactive system for experimental ancient document analysis
applied to the specific use case of the computational analysis of magical signs, called …