Universidade de São Paulo – FFLCH

Magia, alquimia e hermetismo na Antiguidade greco-romana

Descrição

Este curso pretende oferecer uma introdução crítica à magia, alquimia e ao hermetismo na Antiguidade greco-romana, i. e., não só apresentar fontes antigas relevantes aos assuntos referidos, mas também refletir a respeito dos mecanismos por trás da categorização de certas práticas ou discursos como « mágicos », « alquímicos » ou « herméticos ». Apesar de o curso lidar sobretudo com evidências em grego em latim, o Egito sob o domínio do Império Romano terá um papel central na discussão dos assuntos propostos.

Programa

Aula 1 – O que é “magia”?
O que costuma ser visto como/associado à “magia” hoje em dia? O que a diferenciaria da religião e quem são seus praticantes? Discussão guiada baseada em estudos críticos modernos e passagens selecionadas de obras antigas (e.g. Apologia de Apuleio; PGM 4).

Aula 2 – Representações da magia e seus praticantes
Discussão sobre figuras associadas à magia (como Medeia, Circe, Ostanes e Zoroastro) em obras poéticas (e.g. Odisseia; Medeia, de Eurípides; Argonáuticas, de Apolônio de Rodes) e em prosa (e.g. História Natural, de Plínio Velho; Apologia, de Apuleio).

Aula 3 – Introdução aos papiros mágicos greco-egípcios
Introdução aos papiros mágicos greco-egípcios (= PGM). Discussão sobre datação, linguagem, contexto histórico-cultural e exemplos de diferentes práticas ritualísticas.

Aula 4 – Sincretismo e ecletismo nos papiros mágicos greco-egípcios
Discussão sobre a coexistência de elementos pagãos (greco-romanos e egípcios) e judaicos nos papiros mágicos, baseada sobretudo em passagens do PGM 3, PGM 4 e PGM 13.

Aula 5 – Hermetismo no Corpus Hermeticum
Introdução ao Corpus Hermeticum (= C.H.); discussão sobre temáticas (e.g. modo revelatório, concepções de conhecimento e do divino) e personagens do corpus (Hermes, Tot/Tat, Poimandres, Ísis e Hórus) exemplificadas em passagens de três composições (C.H. 1, C.H. 4 e C.H. 23).

Aula 6 – Hermetismo para além do Corpus Hermeticum
Discussão sobre evidências antigas do hermetismo fora do Corpus Hermeticum, tais como composições da Biblioteca de Nag Hammadi (= N.H.C. VI.6-8), trechos da obra alquímica anônima Carta de Ísis a Hórus e passagens dos papiros mágicos greco-egípcios.

Aula 7 – Alquimia greco-egípcia: Pseudo-Demócrito e os papiros de Leiden e de
Estocolmo
Introdução às obras alquímicas de Pseudo-Demócrito, com discussão sobre a datação, a tradição de associar o atomista Demócrito à literatura técnica e os principais interesses técnicos de suas obras. Introdução aos papiros alquímicos de Leiden e de Estocolmo. Discussão sobre datação, localidade, os principais interesses técnicos desses papiros e suas relações com os papiros mágicos greco-egípcios.

Aula 8 – Alquimia greco-egípcia: literatura anônima/pseudepigráfica
Introdução geral ao corpus alquímico e discussão sobre duas de suas obras (o Diálogo entre os Filósofos e a Cleópatra e a Carta de Ísis a Hórus).

Aula 9 – Alquimia greco-egípcia: Zósimo de Panópolis (parte I)
Introdução à obra de Zósimo de Panópolis, o primeiro autor histórico da alquimia grecoegípcia. Discussão de passagens da obra Sobre a Letra Omega.

Aula 10 – Alquimia greco-egípcia: Zósimo de Panópolis (parte II) & encerramento
Discussão de passagens das Memórias 10-12 (também conhecidas como Visões) de Zósimo de Panópolis. Discussão final sobre os assuntos abordados no curso como um todo.

Contato

Ministrante Fabiana Lopes da Silveira
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Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic

David Frankfurter (ed), Leiden: Brill, 2019

Description

In the midst of academic debates about the utility of the term “magic” and the cultural meaning of ancient words like mageia or khesheph, this Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic seeks to advance the discussion by separating out three topics essential to the very idea of magic. The three major sections of this volume address (1) indigenous terminologies for ambiguous or illicit ritual in antiquity; (2) the ancient texts, manuals, and artifacts commonly designated “magical” or used to represent ancient magic; and (3) a series of contexts, from the written word to materiality itself, to which the term “magic” might usefully pertain. The individual essays in this volume cover most of Mediterranean and Near Eastern antiquity, with essays by both established and emergent scholars of ancient religions. In a burgeoning field of “magic studies” trying both to preserve and to justify critically the category itself, this volume brings new clarity and provocative insights. This will be an indispensable resource to all interested in magic in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, ancient Greece and Rome, Early Christianity and Judaism, Egypt through the Christian period, and also comparative and critical theory.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Introduction

Ancient Magic in a New Key: Refining an Exotic Discipline in the History of Religions – David Frankfurter

The Plan of This Volume – David Frankfurter

Cultural Constructions of Ambiguous, Unsanctioned, or Illegitimate Ritual – David Frankfurter

Mesopotamia – Daniel Schwemer

Iran – Albert de Jong

Egypt – Jacco Dieleman

Greece – Fritz Graf

Ancient Israel and Early Judaism – Yuval Harari

Rome and the Roman Empire – Magali Bailliot

Early Christianity – Joseph E. Sanzo

Roman and Byzantine Egypt – Jacques van der Vliet

The Materials of Ancient Magic – David Frankfurter

The Greco-Egyptian Magical Papyri – Jacco Dieleman

Christian Spells and Manuals from Egypt – Jacques van der Vliet

Binding Spells on Tablets and Papyri – Esther Eidinow

Jewish Amulets, Magic Bowls, and Manuals in Aramaic and Hebrew – Gideon Bohak

Gems – Véronique Dasen and Árpád M. Nagy

Figurines, Images, and Representations Used in Ritual Practices – Andrew T. Wilburn

Textual Amulets and Writing Traditions in the Ancient World – Roy D. Kotansky

Building Ritual Agency: Foundations, Floors, Doors, and Walls – Andrew T. Wilburn

Dimensions of a Category Magic – David Frankfurter

Spell and Speech Act: The Magic of the Spoken Word – David Frankfurter

The Magic of Writing in Mediterranean Antiquity – David Frankfurter

Magic and the Forces of Materiality – David Frankfurter

The Magical Elements of Mysticism: Ritual Strategies for Encountering Divinity – Naomi Janowitz

Magic and Theurgy – Sarah Iles Johnston

Magic as the Local Application of Authoritative Tradition – David Frankfurter

Magic and Social Tension – Esther Eidinow

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/12555

Practicing Gnosis

Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi,

Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature

April DeConick, Gregory Shaw, and John D. Turner, Leiden: Brill, 2013

Description

Ritual, magic, liturgy, and theurgy were central features of Gnosticism, and yet Gnostic practices remain understudied. This anthology is meant to fill in this gap and address more fully what the ancient Gnostics were doing. While previously we have studied the Gnostics as intellectuals in pursuit of metaphysical knowledge, the essays in this book attempt to understand the Gnostics as ecstatics striving after religious experience, as prophets seeking revelation, as mystics questing after the ultimate God, as healers attempting to care for the sick and diseased. These essays demonstrate that the Gnostics were not necessarily trendy intellectuals seeking epistomological certainities. They were after religious experiences that relied on practices. The book is organized comparatively in a history-of-religions approach with sections devoted to Initiatory, Recurrent, Therapeutic, Ecstatic, and Philosophic Practices. This book celebrates the brilliant career of Birger A. Pearson.

(Text from the publisher)

Table de matières

Introduction

For Birger Pearson: A Scholar Who Both Studies and Embodies Syncretism

Religionsgeschichtliche Schule, Religionswissenschaft, Piano, Oboe and Bourbon

Birger Pearson: Scholar, Professor and Mentor

Birger Albert Pearson A Bibliography

The Road for the Soul Is through the Planets: The Mysteries of the Ophians Mapped

Ecstatic Religion in the Roman Cult of Mithras

The Gospel of Philip as Gnostic Initiatory Discourse

Becoming Invisible: Rending the Veil and the Hermeneutic of Secrecy in the Gospel of Philip

Ritual in the Second Book of Jeu

Death on the Nile: Egyptian Codices, Gnosticism, and Early Christian Books of the Dead

Going to Church with the Valentinians

Practicing “Repentance” on the Path to Gnosis in Exegesis on the Soul

Opening the Way of Writing: Semiotic Metaphysics in the Book of Thoth

“I Worship and Glorify”: Manichaean Liturgy and Piety in Kellis’ Prayer of the Emanations

The Manichaean Weekly Confession Ritual

Ritual Ingenuity in the Mandaean Scroll of Exalted Kingship

Natural, Magical, Scientific or Religious? A Guide to Theories of Healing

Astrological Medicine in Gnostic Traditions

The Persistence of Ritual in the Magical Book of Mary and the Angels: P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 685

Image and Word: Performative Ritual and Material Culture in the Aramaic Incantation Bowls

From Baptismal Vision to Mystical Union with the One: The Case of the Sethian Gnostics

Marcosian Rituals for Prophecy and Apolytrosis

Ritual in the Hekhalot Literature

The Platonizing Sethian Gnostic Interpretation of Plato’s Sophist

Did Plotinus “Friends” Still Go to Church? Communal Rituals and Ascent Apocalypses

The Meaning of “One”: Plurality and Unity in Plotinus and Later Neoplatonism

Theurgy and the Platonist’s Luminous Body

Index

Lien

https://brill.com/view/title/24418

Practicing Gnosis

Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi,

Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature.

Essays in Honor of Birger A. Pearson

April D. DeConick, Gregory Shaw and John D. Turner, Leiden: Brill, 2013

Description

Ritual, magic, liturgy, and theurgy were central features of Gnosticism, and yet Gnostic practices remain understudied. This anthology is meant to fill in this gap and address more fully what the ancient Gnostics were doing. While previously we have studied the Gnostics as intellectuals in pursuit of metaphysical knowledge, the essays in this book attempt to understand the Gnostics as ecstatics striving after religious experience, as prophets seeking revelation, as mystics questing after the ultimate God, as healers attempting to care for the sick and diseased. These essays demonstrate that the Gnostics were not necessarily trendy intellectuals seeking epistomological certainities. They were after religious experiences that relied on practices. The book is organized comparatively in a history-of-religions approach with sections devoted to Initiatory, Recurrent, Therapeutic, Ecstatic, and Philosophic Practices. This book celebrates the brilliant career of Birger A. Pearson.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Front Matter

Introduction

For Birger Pearson: A Scholar Who Both Studies and Embodies Syncretism

Religionsgeschichtliche Schule, Religionswissenschaft, Piano, Oboe and Bourbon

Birger Pearson: Scholar, Professor and Mentor

Birger Albert Pearson A Bibliography

The Road for the Soul Is through the Planets: The Mysteries of the Ophians Mapped

Ecstatic Religion in the Roman Cult of Mithras

The Gospel of Philip as Gnostic Initiatory Discourse

Becoming Invisible: Rending the Veil and the Hermeneutic of Secrecy in the Gospel of Philip

Ritual in the Second Book of Jeu

Death on the Nile: Egyptian Codices, Gnosticism, and Early Christian Books of the Dead

Going to Church with the Valentinians

Practicing “Repentance” on the Path to Gnosis in Exegesis on the Soul

Opening the Way of Writing: Semiotic Metaphysics in the Book of Thoth

“I Worship and Glorify”: Manichaean Liturgy and Piety in Kellis’ Prayer of the Emanations

The Manichaean Weekly Confession Ritual

Ritual Ingenuity in the Mandaean Scroll of Exalted Kingship

Natural, Magical, Scientific or Religious? A Guide to Theories of Healing

Astrological Medicine in Gnostic Traditions

The Persistence of Ritual in the Magical Book of Mary and the Angels: P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 685

Image and Word: Performative Ritual and Material Culture in the Aramaic Incantation Bowls

From Baptismal Vision to Mystical Union with the One: The Case of the Sethian Gnostics

Marcosian Rituals for Prophecy and Apolytrosis

Ritual in the Hekhalot Literature

The Platonizing Sethian Gnostic Interpretation of Plato’s Sophist

Did Plotinus “Friends” Still Go to Church? Communal Rituals and Ascent Apocalypses

The Meaning of “One”: Plurality and Unity in Plotinus and Later Neoplatonism

Theurgy and the Platonist’s Luminous Body

Index

Link

https://brill.com/view/title/24418