2024

SCS-76: Magic and Dreams

In-Person SCS Session Session

Salon C-5, Lower Level

Chairs
Christopher Faraone, University of Chicago

01 - Dismembered According to the Rigor of Harmony: A Structuralist Reading of Zosimos' Visions

Devin Lawson, Bryn Mawr College

02 - Plato, Magoi, and Lived Religion in Fourth-Century Athens: A View from Attic Curse Tablets

Christopher Atkins, Yale University

03 - Sirens Bind: Siren-Song as Binding Spell in the Odyssey, Plato’s Cratylus, Xenophon’s Memorabilia, and a Roman Curse Tablet from the 1st Century C.E.

Catherine Saterson, Yale University

04 - Artemidorus and the Panopticism of Urban Life: The Social Worlds of Non-Elites

Geoffrey Harmsworth, Columbia University