عنوان

Ancient Greco-Roman Magic and the Agency of Victimhood

شماره

LA122865

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Ancient Greco-Roman Magic and the Agency of Victimhood

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Esther Eidinow

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Scholarship on ancient Greco-Roman magic over time and place, has largely focused on the role and identity of ritual practitioners, investigating the nature and source of their perceived expertise and often locating it in their linguistic skills. Less attention has been paid to those identified as the targets of magical rituals, who tend to be described as passive recipients of the ritual or victims of the social power of another. In contrast, drawing on the theory of ritual form developed by Robert McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson, alongside the ritualization theories of Catherine Bell, 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. Scholarship on ancient Greco-Roman magic over time and place, has largely focused on the role and identity of ritual practitioners, investigating the nature and source of their perceived expertise and often locating it in their linguistic skills. Less attention has been paid to those identified as the targets of magical rituals, who tend to be described as passive recipients of the ritual or victims of the social power of another. In contrast, drawing on the theory of ritual form developed by Robert McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson, alongside the ritualization theories of Catherine Bell, 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.

تاريخ نشر

2017

توصيف ظاهري

394-417

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

64/4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

Catherine Bell

اصطلاح موضوعی

E. Thomas Lawson

اصطلاح موضوعی

Libanius

اصطلاح موضوعی

magic

اصطلاح موضوعی

ritual form

اصطلاح موضوعی

ritualization

اصطلاح موضوعی

Robert McCauley

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Esther Eidinow

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685276-12341472

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y