Two books of ancient Greek recipes for amulets and other techniques. With Greek text, English translation and notes.
Review by Ken Dowden of the University of Birmingham:
R. W. DANIEL, F. MALTOMINI (edd.), Supplementum Magicum. Vol. I. Abhandlungender Rheinisch-Westfalischen Akademieder Wissenschaften.(Sonderreihe, Papyrologica Coloniensia,XVI.1.) Pp.xxvi+213;8plates. Opladen:Westdeutsche Verlag, 1990. Paper, DM 98.
This volume supplements K. Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae (Leipzig, Berlin, 1928-41; 2nd edition, A. Henrichs [ed.], Stuttgart, 1973-4). It advances both on Preisendanz, who essentially presented text, German translation and apparatus, and on H. D. Betz, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation(Chicago, 1986), who presented translation and brief elucidatory notes. Here we have fuller, and more helpful, notes as well as text, English translation and thorough publication details. The layout and graphics of these often very visual texts is also reproduced with care on the printed page and amplified by the plates at the end. As a result of this ampler treatment there are only fifty-one texts in this volume, all of which have been published individually before. They are categorized as protective charms, pagan and Christian, and erotic charms, some of them rather gripping (notably the lengthy homosexual charm, no. 42, 'Fundament of the gloomy darkness, jagged-toothed dog...'). Clearly any library with a claim to a comprehensive range of Greek texts will need this supplement-and its companion, vol. II with a similar number of texts, which was published in 1992 (DM 118).
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Review by Ken Dowden of the University of Birmingham:
R. W. DANIEL, F. MALTOMINI (edd.), Supplementum Magicum. Vol. I. Abhandlungender Rheinisch-Westfalischen Akademieder Wissenschaften.(Sonderreihe, Papyrologica Coloniensia,XVI.1.) Pp.xxvi+213;8plates. Opladen:Westdeutsche Verlag, 1990. Paper, DM 98.
This volume supplements K. Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae (Leipzig, Berlin, 1928-41; 2nd edition, A. Henrichs [ed.], Stuttgart, 1973-4). It advances both on Preisendanz, who essentially presented text, German translation and apparatus, and on H. D. Betz, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation(Chicago, 1986), who presented translation and brief elucidatory notes. Here we have fuller, and more helpful, notes as well as text, English translation and thorough publication details. The layout and graphics of these often very visual texts is also reproduced with care on the printed page and amplified by the plates at the end. As a result of this ampler treatment there are only fifty-one texts in this volume, all of which have been published individually before. They are categorized as protective charms, pagan and Christian, and erotic charms, some of them rather gripping (notably the lengthy homosexual charm, no. 42, 'Fundament of the gloomy darkness, jagged-toothed dog...'). Clearly any library with a claim to a comprehensive range of Greek texts will need this supplement-and its companion, vol. II with a similar number of texts, which was published in 1992 (DM 118).
MsSVig