April 8, 2021

Transmission of Magical Knowledge in Antiquity: The Papyrus Magical Handbooks in Context

This ambitious project, led by Christopher A. Faraone and Sofía Torallas Tovar but truly collegial and collaborative by the looks of things, is an attempt to do a number of important things, including:

Bring the Papyri magicæ græcæ up to date with a new edition, both as regards editing but also as regards including not only Greek, or even Greek and Demotic, but Greek, Demotic, and Coptic materials,

And by including all the papyri discovered since Preisendanz did his thing between the wars.

They are also interested in the codicological side of the question, with a view to examining how these texts circulated in the form of collections and handbooks.