CURRICULUMVITAE
Name:RichardLindsayGORDON
Dateofbirth:2August1943
1.HigherEducation:
(a) Firstdegree:JesusCollege,Cambridge1962‐66ClassicalTripos,PartI:
Firstclass(1964);PartII:Firstclasswithdistinction(AncientHistoryoption)
1966
(b)Postgraduate:JesusCollege,Cambridge1966‐69
[during this time I attended classes at the following institutions: 1966‐67:
UniversityofFreiburg/Br(ProfessorH.Strasburger);LondonSchoolofEconomics
(ProfessorDavidMartin);1967‐68:Ecole(Pratique)desHautesÉtudes&Collègede
France,Paris(L.Robert,H‐G.Pflaum,J‐P.Vernant,P.Vidal‐Naquet)]
Dissertationtitle:MithraismintheRomanEmpirePhD(1973)(supervisor:M.I.
Finley)
2.AcademicPosts:
DowningCollege,CambridgeResearchFellow,1969‐70
SchoolofModernLanguagesandEuropeanHistory,UniversityofEastAnglia,Norwich,
UK:Lecturerininterdisciplinarytopics(AncientCivilisation)1970‐79
DarwinCollege,CambridgeVisitingFellow1979‐80,1998
EUR,UEASeniorLecturer1979‐88
EUR,UEASeniorFellow1988‐90
Since1988IhaveworkedasaprivatescholarinGermany.
UniversityofErfurt:HonorarprofessorfürantikeReligionsgeschichte,2007‐
Corresponding member of the Max Weber Centre for Cultural and Social Studies,
UniversityofErfurt,2008‐
3.Publications:
Books:
1)Monographs:
MagicasLivedReligionintheLatinWest.IstvanHahnLecture,Budapest2015
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(forthcoming)
2)Collections: ImageandValueintheGraeco‐RomanWorld:StudiesinMithraismandreligiousart
VariorumCollectedStudiesseries(Aldershot,1996).
UsingtheGods:MeaningandagencyinGraeco‐Romanreligion.RGVV(Berlin)
(forthcoming,2016)
3)aseditor:
Myth,religionandsociety:structuralistessaysbyM.Detienne,L.Gernet,J‐P.Vernant,P.
Vidal‐Naquet(Cambridge1980repr.1986and2009)(ed.andtransl.)
withF.MarcoSimón(eds.),MagicalPracticeintheLatinWest:Papersfromthe
InternationalConferenceheldattheUniversityofZaragoza,30Sept.–1stOct.2005.
RGRW168(Leyden,2010).
withK.WaldnerandW.Spickermann,BurialRituals,IdeasofAfterlife,andthe
IndividualintheHellenisticWorlfdandtheRomanEmpire.PawBxx(Stuttgart,
2016).
withG.PetridouandJ.Rüpke,BeyondPriesthood:InteractingwithReligiousProfessionals
andAppropropriatingTraditionsintheImperialPeriod.RGVVxx(Berlin,2016)
withF.MarcoSimónandM.Piranomonte(eds.),ChoosingMagic:Contexts,Objects,
Meanings.TheArchaeologyofInstrumentalReligionintheLatinWest(Rome,
2016)
Articles:
1.
“Fearoffreedom?SelectivecontinuityinHellenisticreligion”,Didaskalos4
(1972)48‐60.
2.
“MithraismandRomansociety”,Religion2(1972)92‐121.
3.
“FranzCumontandthedoctrinesofMithraism”,MithraicStudies,ed.J.R.
Hinnells(Manchester,1975),I,215‐48.
4.
“Thesacredgeographyofamithraeum”,JournalofMithraicStudies1,1976,119‐
65.
5.
“AnewMithraicrelieffromRome”,JMS1(1976)166‐186.
6.
“Anoteonthe‘Mithraeum’atCyrene”,JMS1(1976)210‐221.
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7.
“IconographicalnotesonthePojejenareliefs”,JMS2(1977‐8)73‐78.
8.
“ThedateandsignificanceofCIMRM598[BritishMuseum,Townley
Collection]”,JMS2(1977‐78)148‐174.
9.
(withJ.R.Hinnells),“Somenewphotographsofwell‐knownMithraicreliefs”,
JMS2(1977‐8)198‐223.
10.
“Therealandtheimaginary:productionandreligionintheGraeco‐Roman
world”,ArtHistory2(1979)5‐34.
11.
“Reality,evocationandboundaryintheMysteriesofMithras”,JMS3(1979‐80)
19‐99.
12. “Panelledcomplications”,JMS3(1979‐80)200‐227.
13.
“Aelian’speony:thelocationofmagicinGraeco‐Romantradition”,Comparative
Criticism,9(ed.E.S.Shaffer)(Cambridge,1987)59‐95.
14.
“Lucan’sErictho”,HomoViator(StudiesforJ.Bramble)(eds.MandM.Whitby,
andP.Hardie)(Bristol,1987)231‐241.
15.
“Authority,salvationandmysteryintheMysteriesofMithras”,J.M.C.Toynbee
MemorialVolume,eds.J.Huskinson,M.Beard,J.Reynolds(NewnhamCollege,
Cambridge,1988)45‐80.
16.
“Themomentofdeath:artandtheritualofGreeksacrifice”:ActsoftheXXVIth
CongressfortheHistoryofArt,Washington11‐16August1986[CIHA](ed.I.Lavinet
al.),(UniversityPark,1989)431‐437.
17‐19: “From Republic to Principate: priesthood, religion and ideology”; “The Veil of
Power: emperors, sacrifice and benefaction”; “Religion in the Roman Empire: the civic
compromise and its limits”, in M. Beard & J. North (eds.) Pagan Priests (Duckworth,
London,1990)179‐255.
20.
“RomanInscriptions,1986‐90”,JournalofRomanStudies83(1993)131‐158
(withJoyceReynolds,CharlotteRouechéandMaryBeard).
21.
“Mystery,metaphoranddoctrineintheMysteriesofMithras”inStudiesin
Mithraism:PapersassociatedwiththeMithraicPanelorganizedontheoccasionofthe
XVIthCongressoftheInternationalAssociationfortheHistoryofReligions,Rome1990,
ed.J.R.Hinnells(Rome,1994)103‐124.
22.
“ThehealingeventinGraeco‐Romanfolk‐medicine”,inAncientMedicineinits
socio‐culturalContext,eds.H.F.J.Horstmanshoff,P.J.vanderEijk,P.H.Schrijvers
(Leyden,1995)363‐376.
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23.
14articlesforOxfordClassicalDictionary³(1996):Mysteries,Orientalmysteries,
Syncretism,IOMDolichenus,Men,Anubis,Apis,Horus,Isis,Sarapis,Osiris,Egyptian
deities,Eunuchsreligious,Vesta(300‐1200words).
24.
4articlesforDictionaryofDeitiesandDemonsintheBible(Leyden,1995):
Poseidon,Pronoia,Helios,Anthropos(1,000‐4,000words).
25.
14articlesforDerNeuePauly,1‐2(1996‐7):Anaitis,Arimaspoi,Belenus[never
printed],Brachmanes,Bukoloi,Caelestis,Cannophori,DaktyloiIdaioi,Dendrophori,
Dolichenus,Enyalios,Enyo.
26.
“Quaedamveritatisumbrae:Hellenisticmagicandastrology”in:T.Engberg‐
Pedersen(ed.)ConventionalValuesintheHellenisticWorld(Aarhus,1997)128‐158.
27.
“ReportingtheMarvellous:PrivateDivinationintheGreekMagicalPapyri”,in:
H.Kippenberg&P.Schäfer(edd.),EnvisioningMagic:APrincetonSeminarand
Symposium(Leyden,1997)65‐92.
28.
“RomanInscriptions,1990‐95”,JournalofRomanStudies87(1997)203‐240
(withMaryBeard,JoyceReynolds,CharlotteRoueché).
29.
“ViewingMithraicart:thealtarfromBurginatium(Kalkar),GermaniaInferior,”
ARYS1(1998)227‐258.
30.
“ImaginingGreekandRomanmagic,”in:B.Ankarloo&S.Clark(eds.),The
AthloneHistoryofWitchcraftandMagicinEurope,2:AncientGreeceandRome
(London,1999)159‐275.
31.“‘What’sinalist?’:listinginGreekandGraeco‐Romanmalignmagicaltexts,”in:D.
Jordan,H.Montgomery&E.Thomasson(edd.)TheWorldofAncientMagic:
ProceedingsoftheFirstinternationalEitremSeminar,AthensMay1997(Bergen,
2000),239‐277.
32.
“Milontasgiatemageia,”Archaiologia,Athens,no.73,Dec.1999,8‐17.An
Englishtranslationwithouttheillustrationsappearedas“TalkingofMagic”,inJ.C.B.
Petropoulos(ed.),GreekMagic:Ancient,MedievalandModern.Routledge
MonographsinClassicalStudies(London,2008)139‐149.
33.
12articlesforDerNeuePauly,6‐8(1998‐2000):Kautes‐Kautopates,Kotyto,
Kureten,Logos,2(Zauberformel),Luna,Ma,Mars,Maskelli‐Maskello,Mithras,
Molpoi,Molpos;art.‘Griechisch‐orientalischeKulte’,ReligioninGeschichteund
Gegenwarted.4,vol.3(Tübingen,2000),1292f.
34.“‘Persaeisubrupibusantri’:ÜberlegungenzurEntstehungderMithrasmysterien”,
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in:PtujimrömischenReich/MithraskultundseineZeit:Aktendesintern.Symposion
Ptuj,11‐15.Okt.1999ArchaeologiaPoetovionensis2(Ptuj,2001[2002])289‐301.
35.“TheRomanimperialcultandthequestionofpower,”inRaisingtheEyebrow:John
OniansandWorldArtStudies,L.Golden(ed.)BARInternationalSeries996(Oxford
2001),107‐22.ReprintedinJ.A.NorthandS.R.F.Price(eds.),TheReligiousHistoryof
theRomanEmpire:Pagans,JewsandChristians(Oxford,2011)[=OxfordReadingsin
ClassicalStudies]37‐70.
36.“Shapingthetext:theoryandpracticeinGraeco‐Egyptianmalignmagic,”in:Kykeon:
StudiesinhonourofH.S.Versnel,edsH.E.J.Horstmannshoff,H.W.Singor,F.T.van
Straten&J.H.M.Strubbe.RGRW142(Leyden,2002)69‐111.
37.11articlesforDerNeuePauly9‐12.2(2000‐2002):Pontifex,PriesterII,Selene,Sol‐
Helios,Synkretismus,TheoiMegaloi,Zagreus,Zauberpapyri,Zauberpuppe,
Zauberworte,Zurvan;4articlesforReligioninGeschichteundGegenwarted.4,vol.5
(2002):Mysterien:Begriffserklärung,Mysterienreligion,1:Religionsgeschichtlich,
Mystagogie/MystagogischeTheologie,1:Gr.‐röm.Antike,MystikIIIGeschichtlich,1:
Gr.‐röm.Antike.Entry‘Divination,Prophecy,Oracles:Rome’forTheHarvard
CompaniontoAncientReligion,S.I.Johnston(ed.)(Cambridge,Mass,2003)387‐90.
Article‘Mithraism’fortheEncyclopediaofReligion²(ed.LindsayJones)(Chicago
2005)vol.9,pp.6088‐92.
38.“AnotherviewofthePergamondivinationkit”,JournalofRomanArchaeology15
(2002)188‐198.
39.“RomanInscriptions,1996‐2000,”JournalofRomanStudies93(2003)212‐292
(withasectionbyC.Roueché).
40.“InterpretingMithrasinthelateRenaissance,1:the‘monumentofOttavianoZeno’
(V.335)inAntonioLafreri’sSpeculumRomanaeMagnificentiae(1564),”inElectronic
JournalofMithraicStudies4(2004)(illustrated).
41.“TrajetsdeMithraenSyrieromaine,”Topoi(Lyon:Maisondel’Orient)11.1(2001)
[2004],77‐136.
42.“SmallandminiaturereproductionsoftheMithraicicon:reliefs,pottery,ornaments
andgems”,in:M.MartensandG.deBoe(eds)RomanMithraism:theevidenceofthe
smallfinds(ArcheologieenVlaanderen,Monogr.5)(Brussels,2004),259‐283.
43.“Socialcontrolinthe‘confession’textsofPhrygiaandLydia,”in:L.Hernández
Guerra(ed.),Jerarquíasreligiosasycontrolsocialenelmundoantiguo:ActasdelXXVII
5
Congresointern.GIREA‐ARYSVIII(Valladolid,2004)193‐203.
44.“Raisingasceptre:ConfessionnarrativesfromLydiaandPhrygia,”JRA17(2004)
177‐96.
45.“RitualandhierarchyintheMysteriesofMithras,”in:Divinasdependencias,2in:
ARYS4(2001[2005])245‐74.ReprintedinJ.A.NorthandS.R.F.Price(eds.),The
ReligiousHistoryoftheRomanEmpire:Pagans,JewsandChristians(Oxford2011)[=
OxfordReadingsinClassicalStudies]325‐365.
46.“Competenceand‘felicityconditions’intwosetsofNorthAfricancurse‐tablets
(DTAud.nos.275‐85,286‐98),”MHNH(Málaga)5(2005)61‐86.
47.“MithrasHeliosastrobrontodaimôn?There‐discoveryofIGXIV998=IGVR125in
SouthAfrica,”Epigraphica68(2006)155‐194.
48.withJ.AlvarandC.RodríguezCao,“ThemithraeumatLugo(LucusAugusti)andits
connectionwithLegioVIIGemina,”JRA19.1(2006)266‐277.
49.“Institutionalisedreligiousoptions:Mithraism,”inJ.Rüpke(ed.),TheBlackwell
CompaniontoRomanReligion(Oxford2007)392‐405.
50.“CrisisandTransformationinAntiquity:Somereflections,”RivistadiHistoriografía
3(5)(2007)4‐14.
51.“TheCoherenceofMagical‐herbalandanalogousRecipes,”MHNH7(2007)115‐
146.
52.“Superstitio:superstitionandreligiousrepressioninthelateRomanRepublicand
Principate(100BC–AD300),”inSteveSmithandAlanKnight(eds.)TheReligionof
Fools:‘Superstition’inHistoricalandComparativePerspective.ProceedingsofthePast
andPresentConferenceheldattheUniversityofEssex20‐22May2005.Past&Present
Supplement3(Oxford,2008)72‐94.
53.“TheRomanArmyandtheCultofMithras:acriticalview,”inY.LeBohecandCath.
Wolff(eds.),L’arméeromaineetlareligion(Paris,2009)379‐450.
54.“TheMithraicBody:theexampleoftheCapuaMithraeum,”in:G.Casadio&P.A.
Johnston(eds.),MysticCultsinMagnaGraecia,SymposiumCumanum,June19‐22,
2002(AustinTX,2009)290‐313.
55.“MagicasaToposinAugustanPoetry:Discourse,RealityandDistance”,Archivfür
Religionsgeschichte11(2009)209‐228.
56.“MagianLessonsinNaturalHistory:UniqueanimalsinGraeco‐Romannatural
magic,”inJ.Dijkstra,L.KroesenandY.Kuiper(eds.),Myths,MartyrsandModernity:
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StudiesintheHistoryofReligionsinhonourofJanN.Bremmer.NumenSuppl.127
(Leyden,2010)249‐269.
57.withDominiqueJolyandWilliamvanAndringa,“L’inscriptionsurlesturibula.
Commentairesurlaprière”inD.Joly,F.Dupont&C.deFrutos,Unensemblede
mobiliercultuelantiqueencontexteurbain.LacavedumagiciendeCaiusVerius
Sedatus,PlacedesÉpars,Chartres(Eure–et‐Loire‐Centre).Rapportdesondage.
ServicearchéologiquedeChartres(Chartres,2009)138‐47.Arevisedversionhas
appearedas:D.Joly(dir.),R.L.Gordon,J.Simon,W.vanAndringa,S.Willerval,
“L’attiraild’unmagicienrangédansunecavedeChartres/Autricum”,Gallia67.2
(2010)125‐208at168‐75.
58.eidem,“APrayerforBlessingsonthreeRitualObjectsdiscoveredatChartres‐
Autricum(France:Eure‐et‐Loir),”inGordonandMarcoSimón,MagicalPracticein
theLatinWest(Leyden,2010)487‐518(asubstantiallydifferentversion).
59.“Introduction”toGordonandMarcoSimón,MagicalPracticeintheLatinWest
(Leyden,2010)1‐49.
60.“Minos’SilverWine‐cup:ReligiousForgery,ReceptionandFunctionalMemoryin
ClassicalAntiquity,”ARYS7(2006‐08)[2010]17‐46.
61.“TheRulesoftheGame:ConstructingPowerinRhizotomicPractice,”ActaClassica
UniversitatisScientiarumDebreceniensis47(2011)45‐68.
62.“Signanovaetinaudita:TheTheoryandPracticeofInventedSignsinGraeco‐
EgyptianMagicalTexts”,MHNH11(2011)[FestschriftF.CalvoMartinez]15‐45.
63.“ArchaeologiesofMagicalGems”,in:C.Entwistle(ed.).‘AndThesetheGemsof
Heaven’:ProceedingsoftheBritishMuseumByzantineSeminar(London,2012,corr.
reprint2013)39‐48.
64.“Uttumevindices:MaterMagnaandAttisinsomenewLatindefixiones”,inA.
MastrocinqueandC.GiuffrèScibona(eds.),Demeter,Isis,VestaandCybele:Studiesin
GreekandRomanReligioninhonourofGiuliaSfameniGasparro.PAwB36(Stuttgart,
2012)195‐212.
65.“MemoryandAuthorityintheMagicalPapyri,”inB.DignasandR.R.R.Smith(eds.),
HistoricalandReligiousMemoryintheAncientWorld:EssaysforSimonPrice(Oxford,
2012)145‐180.
66.“RepresentativeIndividualityinIamblichus’Devitapythagorica”in:J.RüpkeandW.
Spickermann(eds.),ReflectionsonReligiousIndividuality:Greco‐RomanandJudaeo‐
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Christiantextsandpractices.RGVV62(Berlin,2012)71‐97.
67.Art.“Mithras”,inReallexikonfürAntikeu.Christentumvol.24/Lfg.193(2012)cols.
964‐1009.
68.“FixingtheRace:ManagingrisksintheCircusatCarthageandHadrumetum”,inM.
Piranomonte and F. Marco Simón (eds.), Contesti magici/Contextos mágicos. Atti del
ConvegnoInternazionale‘Contestimagici/Contextosmágicos’,PalazzoMassimo,Roma,
4‐6nov.2009(Rome2012[2013])47‐74.
69.“OnTypologiesandHistory:‘OrphicThemes’inMithraism”,inG.SfameniGasparro,
A.CosentinoandM.Monaca(eds.),ReligionintheHistoryofEuropeanCulture.
ProceedingsoftheNinthEASRConferenceandIAHRSpecialConference,14–17Sept.
2009,Messina.Bibliotecadell’OfficinasiStudiMedievali16(Palermo2013)vol.2,
1023‐1048.
70.“Cosmology,astrology,andmagic:Discourse,schemes,powerandliteracy”,inL.
BricaultandC.Bonnet(eds.),Panthée:ReligiousTransformationsintheGraeco‐
RomanEmpire.RGRW177(Leyden,2013)85‐111.
71.“TheMiles‐frameintheMitreodiFelicissimoandthepracticalitiesofsacrifice”
(CommentonA.ChalupaandT.Glomb....),Religio:RevueproReligionistiku[Brno]
21.1(2013)33‐38.
72.“Individuality,selfhoodandpowerintheSecondCentury:Themystagogueasa
mediatorofreligiousoptions”,inJ.RüpkeandG.Woolf(eds.),ReligiousDimensions
oftheSelfintheSecondcenturyCE.STAC76(Tübingen,2013)146‐172.
73.“Inversion,Codeverletzung,Spott:‘KarnevaleskeElemente’imantiken
Griechenland”,in:D.Fugger(ed.),VerkehrteWelten?ForschungenzumMotivder
rituellerInversion.HistorischeZeitschrift,Beiheft60(Munich,2013)39‐70.
74.“Gods,guiltandsuffering:Psychologicalaspectsofcursinginthenorth‐western
provincesoftheRomanEmpire”,ActaClassicaUniversitatisScientiarum
Debreceniensis49(2013)255‐81.
75.“TheReligiousanthropologyofLate‐antique‘high’MagicalPractice”,inJ.Rüpke
(ed.),IndividualizationintheReligionsoftheAncientMediterranean(Oxford2013)
163‐186.
76.“Willmychildhaveabignose?”:Uncertainty,authorityandnarrativeinkatarchic
astrology”,inV.Rosenberger(ed.),DivinationintheAncientWorld:ReligiousOptions
andtheIndividual.PotsdamerAltertumswissenschaftlicheBeiträge46(Stuttgart,
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2013)93‐137.
77.“CharaktêresbetweenAntiquityandRenaissance:TransmissionandRe‐invention”,
inV.DasenandJ.‐M.Spieser(eds.),Lessavoirsmagiquesetleurtransmissionde
l’AntiquitéàlaRenaissance.ColloqueFribourg17‐19mars2011.Micrologus’Library
60(Florence,2014)253‐300.
78.“Addendum”toP.D.A.Garnsey&R.P.Saller,TheRomanEmpire2(London2014)
chap.9“Religion”,pp.199‐205.
79.withV.Gasparini,“LookingforIsis‘theMagician’(ḥkȝy.t)outsideEgypt”,inL.
BricaultandR.Veymiers(eds.),BibliothecaIsiaca3(Bordeaux)39‐53.
80“ReflectionsontheInternationalSymposium‘ReconstructionandtheHistoricCity:
RomeandAbroad–aninterdisciplinaryapproach’,LMUMunich,17‐19October
2012”,inC.Häuber,F.X.SchützandG.M.Winder(eds.),Reconstructionandthe
HistoricCity:RomeandAbroad–aninterdisciplinaryapproach.Beiträgezur
WirtschaftsgeographieMünchen6(Munich,2014)260‐263.
81.“Fromsubstancestotexts:ThreematerialitiesofmagicintheRomanperiod”,inD.
BoschungandJ.N.Bremmer(eds.),TheMaterialityofMagic,ActaoftheInternational
ConferenceheldattheCenterforAdvancedStudies,UniversityofCologne,May
2012.Morphomata20(Munich,2015)133‐176.
82.“FromMiθratoRomanMithras”:AppendixtoM.L.West,“AncientGreece”inM.
StausbergandY.Sohrab‐DinschawVevaina(eds.),TheWiley‐BlackwellCompanionto
Zoroastrianism(MaldenandOxford2015)451‐456.
83.“Religiouscompetenceandindividuality:ThreestudiesintheRomanEmpire”,Religion
45(2015)Digitalversionpublished1/6/2015
84.“Showingthegodstheway:Curse‐tabletsasdeicticpersuasion”,Religioninthe
RomanEmpire1.2(2015)148‐180.
85.“Temporarydeprivation:Rulesandmeanings”,inJ.RüpkeandR.Raja(eds.),A
CompaniontotheArchaeologyofReligionintheAncientWorld(MaldenMAand
Oxford2015)194‐206.
Inpress:
86.“Negotiatingthetemple‐script:Women’snarrativesamongthe‘confession‐texts’of
westernAsiaMinor”,inRRE….
87.“‘Straighteningthepaths’:InductiveDivination,MaterialityandImaginationinthe
9
Graeco‐RomanPeriod”,inJenniferKnust&ClaudiaMoser(eds.),RitualMatters,
Suppl.toMemoirsoftheAmericanAcademyinRome…..
88.“Goodtothink:TheWolfandWolf‐menintheGraeco‐RomanWorld”,inW.de
Blécourt(ed.),WerewolfHistories(Basingstoke2015)
89.“PersaeinspelaeisSolemcolunt:Mithra(s)betweenPersiaandRome”,inR.
StrootmanandM.J.Versluys(eds.),PersianisminAntiquity(Stuttgart,2016)
90.“DenJungstieraufdengoldenenSchulterzutragen.Mythos,Ritualund
JenseitsvorstellungenimMithraskult”,inK.Waldner,W.Spickermann,R.L.Gordon
(eds.),BurialRituals,IdeasofAfterlife,andtheIndividualintheHellenisticWorlfdand
theRomanEmpire.PawBxx(Stuttgart)
91.“Nature,OrderandWell‐BeingintheRomanCultofMithras”,inA.HintzeandA.
Williams(eds.),StudiesinhonourofJohnHinnells...(London2016)
92.“CulturalappropriationsinP.Brit.Mus.CXXI=PGrMagVII”,inJ.F.Quacketal.(eds.),
CulturalPluralityinAncientMagicalTextsandPractices(Tübingen2016)
93. “Contesting civic monopolies: Choosing Dionysus, choosing Mithras”, in D. Petridou,
R.L. Gordon and J. Rüpke (eds.), Beyond Priesthood: Interacting with Religious
Professionals and Appropropriating Traditions in the Imperial Period. RGVV xx (Berlin
2016).
94.“TheperformativityofGreekandRomanmagicallists”,inRebeccaLämmle,Cédric
ScheideggerLämmle,KatharinaWesselmann(eds.),ListsandCataloguesinAncient
Texts:TowardsaPoeticsofEnumeration.TrendsinClassics(Berlin,2016).
95.“AccommodationsandnegotiationsinAsiaMinor:Smallgroups,localélites,and
Rome”,inE.MuñizGrijalvo(ed.),ImperialDynamicsandReligionintheGreekCitiesof
theRomaEmpire.PawB(Stuttgart).
96.“Diagnosingthesigns:ThebodyassubjectinLatindefixiones”,inR.L.Gordon,F.
MarcoSimónandM.Piranomonte(eds.),ChoosingMagic:Contexts,Objects,
Meanings.TheArchaeologyofInstrumentalReligionintheLatinWest(Rome,2016)
97.“FromEasttoWest:StagingReligiousExperienceintheMithraicTemple”,inC.
WitschelandJ.‐F.Quack(eds.),FromtheOrienttoRomeandBackAgain:Religious
FlowsintheRomanEmpire.ProceedingsoftheColloquiumheldatHeidelberg26‐29
Nov.2009(stillineditingprocess)
98.12entriesofassortedlengthforOxfordEncyclopaediaofLateAntiquity,eds.O.
Nicholson&M.Humphries(Oxford2016):Amulets,Apotropaicsigns,Cursesand
10
Curse‐tablets,Evileye,GreekMagicalpapyri,HermesTrismegistusinLateAntiquity,
Holymen,IsisinLateAntiquity,Magicanddivination,‘MithrasLiturgy’,Votive
offerings(Christian),Witchcraft.Entry“Mysteries”forOxfordEncyclopediaofBible
Archaeology,ed.L.MichaelWhite(Oxford2013)(4,000words).2entriesforthe
RoutledgeDictionaryofAncientMediterraneanReligions(2015):Mithraeum;Cautes
andCautopates.
Projected:
“TheLegalRepressionofMagicatRome”,inD.FrankfurterandH.S.Versnel(eds.),Brill
CompaniontoMagic
“UsingMagic”,inD.FrankfurterandH.S.Versnel(eds.),BrillCompaniontoMagic
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(2012),JRA27(2014)774‐784.
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“Subjectreviews:Religion”,GreeceandRome48(2001),247‐54(13volumes).
“Subjectreviews:Religion”,GreeceandRome49(2002),262‐69(12volumes)
“Subjectreviews:Religion”,GreeceandRome50(2003),264‐76(8volumes)
“Subjectreviews:Religion”,GreeceandRome51(2004),272‐75(4volumes)
“Subjectreviews:Religion”,GreeceandRome52(2005),272‐82(13volumes)
“Subjectreviews:Religion”,GreeceandRome53(2006),275‐82(7volumes)
“Subjectreviews:Religion”,GreeceandRome54(2007),272‐84(10volumes)
“Subjectreviews:Religion”,GreeceandRome55(2008),300‐310(13volumes)
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203f.
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JRA13(2000)736‐42.
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349‐51.
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(2005)99‐100.
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(2005)286‐88.
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(2007)514‐17.
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AncientSelinous(Oxford2013),BMCR2014.12.10.
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Booksinprogress:
ClaimingPower:PurveyingmagicalservicesintheGraeco‐RomanWorld(Oxford)
ReligionandPersonalCrisis:Curse‐tabletsas‘livedreligion’
TheRomanCultofMithras
Currentandrecentlyexpiredprojects:
1.SinceSept.2003:Co‐directoroftheprojects:“Magia,representacionescolectivasy
poderenlaRomadels.I”und“Espaciosdelamagia,supersticiónypoderenel
occidentedelImperioromano”,UniversityofZaragoza.FinancedbytheMinisterio
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deEducaciónyCiencia,Madrid.Thisprojectwasextendedforafurtherthreeyears
(2012‐14),tocompleteadigitaldata‐bankofarchaeologicalandepigraphicmagical
documentsintheLatinWest;thegroupiscurrentlyputtingtogetherafinalvolume
onMagicalContexts.
2.SinceOctober2008.AssociatememberoftheKollegforschergruppe“Religiöse
IndividualisierunginhistorischerPerspektive”,Max‐Weber‐Kolleg,Erfurt,underthe
directionofProf.HansJoas&JörgRüpke(financedbytheDeutscheForschungs‐
Gemeinschaft).Alsoamemberofasub‐groupwithProf.W.Spickermann&Prof.K.
Waldner,“Mysterienkulte,TodundBestattung”,currentlycompletingtheeditingof
theActaoftheconferenceheldinSept.2011.
3.SinceMay2012.AssociatememberoftheLivedAncientReligionproject,Max‐
Weber‐Kolleg,Erfurt,underthedirectionofProf.JörgRüpke,financedbythe
EuropeanResearchCouncil.Regularcolloquia,discussionandplanningmeetingsin
Erfurt.TheprojectisduetocometoanendinMay2017.
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