Magic was a fundamental part of the Greco-Roman world. Curses, erotic spells, healing
charms, divination, and other supernatural methods of trying to change the universe were�…

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In her previous books, Vicki Le n put readers in the sandals of now obsolete laborers,
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The present dissertation is the editio princeps of P. Mich. 6925, the most extensive love
charm inscribed on an extant lead tablet. The upper section of the tablet contains (1)�…

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It has been in the nature of men's hearts to take pleasure in a beautiful woman since the age
of male and female gods, but to become intoxicated by the blossom of a handsome youth�…

We are so familiar with the love tradition that we mistake it for a natural and universal
phenomenon and have no impulse to inquire into its origins. But it is difficult if not impossible�…

MY LORD: The interest which your lordship has always taken in historical studies, has
encouraged me to offer to you this volume of what may be truly considered as the dark�…

This thesis is a semiotic analysis of the tools instructed for application by the erotic magical
papyri (EMP). Erotic magic, one of the largest categories instructed by the Papyri Graecae�…