Indispensable Ancient Civilian Booklist

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Not see anything on Magic in the Ancient World yet, here be my contributions to this area:

Burriss, E.E. 1974. Taboo, Magic, Spirits: A Study of the Primitive Elements in Roman Religion. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Graf, F. 1999. Magic in the Ancient World (Trans. Philip, F.). Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press

Janowitz, N. 2001. Magic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews and Christians. London and New York: Routledge

Johns, C. 1982. Sex or Symbol: Erotic Images of Greece and Rome, London: British Museum Publications

Luck, G. 1985. Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press

Luck, G. 2000. Ancient Pathways and Hidden Pursuits: Religion, morals and magic in the Ancient World. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Ogden, D. 2002. Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Thomassen, E. 1999. Is magic a subclass of ritual?. in Jordan, D.R., Montgomery, H. and Thomassen, E. (Eds) The World of Ancient Magic: Papers from the First International Eitrem Seminar at the Norwegian Institute at Athens 4-8 May 1997. Bergen: The Norwegian Institute at Athens. 55-66

Tomlin, R.S.O. 2010. Cursing a thief in Iberia and Britain. in Gordon, R.L. and Marco Simón, F. (Eds.), Magical Practice in the Latin West: Papers from the International Conference held at the University of Zaragoza 30 Sept – 1 Oct. 2005. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 245-273

Versnel, H.S. 1991. Some reflections on the relationship magic-religion. Numen 38.2: 177-195

Versnel, H.S. 2010. Prayers for justice East and West: New finds and publications since 1990. In Gordon, R.L. and Marco Simón, F. (Eds.), Magical Practice in the Latin West: Papers from the International Conference held at the University of Zaragoza 30 Sept – 1 Oct. 2005. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 275-354