Magia y brujería en el Mundo Antiguo analyses magic and witchcraft in its different aspects and forms in the ancient world from an international and multidisciplinary perspective. Case studies come from Egypt, the Greek and Roman world and from Late Antiquity, and even cover the reception of ancient magic in the modern world. From an archaeological perspective, contributions study magic through everyday objects, focusing on the Iberian period and on the Roman period in the colony of Clunia Sulpicia. A further chapter investigates how magic transforms the landscape. On the other hand, disciplines such as history and philology are employed to explore specific examples of the use of magic and its evolution in different periods from Egyptian times to Late Antiquity. Overall the volume demonstrates how magic is present, adapts and is reshaped over the centuries, while maintaining its basic formulas, structures, acts and words with the aim of transforming reality.
Prologo - Javier Gomez Marin y Jose Javier Martinez Garcia La cara en pedazos: valor simbolico la fragmentacion de la imagen del rostro en la cultura iberica - Jose Fenoll Cascales, Jesus Robles Moreno y Rosa Maria Gualda Bernal Medea and uterine magic treatments and control through pharmakos - Maria Regina Candido Sobre las defixiones y figurillas magicas greco-romanas con ousia: de la "magia imaginada" al registro arqueologico - Paula Arbeloa Borbon Magia erogica en epoca grecorromana: las gemas magicas como caso de estudio - Rodrigo Carreno Muniz Hecate ctonia: origen y evolucion de la diosa de las brujas - Arianne Novella Martinez Ars Visio. Representaciones espectrales en el arte griego y romano - Arturo Sanchez Sanz La magia en objetos cotidianos. Los amuletos de la Colonia Clunia Sulpicia - Gustavo Camacho Velez, Monica Gorostiza Gonzalez y Clara Valladolid Esteban De superstitio a herejia: la percepcion de la nigromancia en las mentalidades pagana y cristiana - Nina Mejuto Garcia Amuletos y filacterias: procesos de sincretismo en el Occidente tardoantiguo (ss. V-VIII) - Andres Manguez Tomas Magia, adivinacion, conjuros, pociones y curaciones milagrosas en la Hispania visigoda - Jose Angel Castillo Lozano La tradicion oracular en Oxirrinco como hilo conductor entre Serapis y Filoxeno - Jose Javier Martinez Garcia The Ritual Landscape of Oxyrhynchus: Agency, Context, and Materiality of the Oxyrhynchite Materia Magica - Leah Mascia
José Javier Martínez García has a degree in History from the University of Murcia, as well as in Anthropology from the Catholic University of Murcia, a Masters in Geographic Information Systems, a Masters in Archaeology, a Masters in Teacher Training and a Masters in Egyptology. He is co-director of Begastri (Cehegín) and the Martyrium of La Alberca (Murcia) and member of the research team of Los Villaricos (Mula), Los Cantos (Bullas), Coimbra del Barranco Ancho (Jumilla), Phoenician Mazarrón (Mazarrón), Heracleopolis Magna and Oxyrhynchus (Egypt).
Javier Gómez Marín is a graduate in History from the University of Murcia and Master in Medieval Archeology from the University of York. Throughout his professional career, he has worked as an archaeologist in numerous sites belonging to various historical periods both in Spain and abroad (UK, Italy, Palestine, Albania, Bulgaria), working as a freelancer, for private companies and for institutions. such as the University College London headquarters in Qatar. He is currently a researcher at the University of Murcia, linked to the vivere in urbe project directed by the professor of Archeology at the University of Murcia, Dr. José Miguel Noguera Celdrán.
