Transmission of Magical Knowledge in Antiquity

We are thrilled to announce our newest book of essays: New Approaches to the Great Paris Magical Codex: From PGM IV to GEMF 57. It will be published by De… Read more ⇢

From Monday, March 9, to Friday, March 13, 2026 the Fundación Pastor de Estudios Clásicos in Madrid hosted a meeting of the editorial Board of our GEMF team at the… Read more ⇢

We are pleased to announce that our project Names and Orality in Magic in Antiquity (NOMINA) has been awarded a generous grant by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) [PI… Read more ⇢

We are extremely pleased to announce that we have been awarded the C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit of the Society of Classical Studies in recognition of our book, The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies. The… Read more ⇢

June – July 2023 Conferences It has been a very busy month for the magoi! It started with a conference in Malmö, Sweden, at the 9th Conference of the European Society for… Read more ⇢

The week 19-23 June 2023 we have had the pleasure of receiving James Cowey, from the University of Heidelberg, who has given a workshop on the codification of Greek texts… Read more ⇢

On June 9th, our colleague Panagiota Sarischouli was invited to the Institute of Classical Studies in London to present the project for a database of Magical Names: NOMINA. You can… Read more ⇢

March 2023 Sofía Torallas Tovar will be giving a paper on Compilators of Magic at the University of Florence/Istituto Papirologico Vitelli. Read more ⇢

20-24 February @ Lorentz Center Snellius/Hybrid Three of the participants of the Transmission of Magical Knowledge project – Korshi Dosoo, Raquel Martín Hernandez, and Panagiota Sarischouli – collaborated recently with Ortal-Paz Saar… Read more ⇢

October-November 2022 There is no stopping to our fantastic team of magoi. October 13-14 we held our conference on GEMF 57/PGM IV, which was a total success. Here is the… Read more ⇢

September 2022 On Sept. 13th the first volume of GEMF was presented at the Fundación Pastor de Estudios Clásicos in Madrid. The book was presented by four members of the… Read more ⇢

July 2020 We are very pleased to announce that the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago has granted us a second project to continue working… Read more ⇢

Conference at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (19-20 May 2022) “Scribes and Readers of Magical Texts in Late Antique and Medieval Egypt” We are extremely grateful for the support provided by the… Read more ⇢

The pandemic has been very productive! The first volume of our edition of the magical handbooks on papyrus has been edited in California Classical Studies. It contains the first 54 formularies… Read more ⇢

We are very happy that Huaxi Zhou, senior in the College, majoring in Classics, minoring in linguistics and NELC has joined us with a Fellowship from the College Research Fellows Program at… Read more ⇢

June 2019 Curses in Context 3 and Editorial meeting! Athens, Norwegian Institute We are looking forward to the two events that we are organizing in Athens, at the Norwegian Institute… Read more ⇢

April 2019 Exhibition Announcement: Tracés temporels et manuscrits magiques Our colleagues Raquel Martin (Madrid) and Korshi Dosoo (Würzburg) participate in this exciting exhibit that will combine images and music:  24… Read more ⇢

We are very pleased to announce the new positions of some of our collaborators. In September 2018 Korshi Dosoo will take up a post-doctoral position at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, co-ordinating a 5-year… Read more ⇢

April 2018 New book by Christopher Faraone Last Tuesday, April 10 we celebrated  the publication of Chris Faraone’s new monograph, The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times, with a discussion by an… Read more ⇢

November 2016 The Form, Utility and Professional Technê of Practical Handbooks in the Ancient World Saturday, November 12 8:30 am – 6:20 pm Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society5701 S.… Read more ⇢

September 2016 Raquel Martín Hernández organised in Madrid the conference “Drawings, Charakteres and Figural Representations in Ancient Magic. New Perspectives” on September 15th and 16th 2016 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.… Read more ⇢

Our sister project To Zodion is focusing on the study of drawings and graphics in the magical papyri. Read more ⇢

July 2016 Magical papyri have a special section at the 28th International Congress of Papyrology, where many of our collaborators will present their research. Schedule is here. Read more ⇢

We are planning our next editorial meeting in August (8-9) in the best setting for a discussion on magic, the Abbey of Montserrat. This will happen right after the Congress of… Read more ⇢

September 2015 The first editorial meeting of the project TRANSMISSION OF MAGICAL KNOWLEDGE IN ANTIQUITY: THE PAPYRUS MAGICAL HANDBOOKS IN CONTEXT will take place on September 25th, 2015, at the Chicago Center in… Read more ⇢