Bibliography for
Apuleius, Magic and Miracle

(Gil Renberg, senior thesis, Ann Arbor, 1992)

Works About Apuleius
or That Have Important Discussions of Him

Bernoulli, Johann T., Römische Ikonographie (Stuttgart, 1882 (2nd edn.=Hildesheimi, 1969).

Beaujeu, Jean, Apulée: Opuscules Philosophiques (Paris, 1973).

Beaujeu, J., Les Dieux d'Apulée, Revue de lHistoire des Religions 200 (1983), 385-406.

Bohm, R.K., The Isis Episode in Apuleius, CJ 68 (1973), 228-231.

Butler, H.E. and Owen, A.S., Apulei Apologia sive pro se de Magia Liber, with introduction and commentary (Oxford, 1914).

Charles-Picard, Gilbert, Les Religions de l'Afrique Antique (Paris, 1954).

De Filippo, Joseph G., Curiositas and the Platonism of Apuleius Golden Ass, AJP 111 (1990), 471-492.

Dillon, John M., The Middle Platonists, 80 B.C. to A.D. 220 (Ithaca, 1977).

Drexl, F., Zum Index Nominum der Kleinen Psellosschriften, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 37 (1937), 301.

Festugière, André-Jean, La Révélation dHermés Trismégiste, 4 vols. (Paris, 1941-1954).

Festugière, A.-J., Personal Religion among the Greeks (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1954(a)).

Fowden, G., The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (Cambridge, 1986).

Golann, Cecil P., The Life of Apuleius and his Connection with Magic (diss. Columbia, 1952).

Griffiths, J. Gwyn, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (Leiden, 1975).

Griffiths, J.G., Isis in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, in B.L. Hijmans Jr. and R. Th. van der Paardt (eds.), Aspects of Apuleius Golden Ass (Groningen, 1978), 141-166.

Gsell, Stéphane, Inscriptiones Latines de LAlgérie (Rome, 1965 (2nd edn. 1922)).

Guey, J., L'Apologie d'Apulée et les Inscriptions de Tripolitaine, REL 32 (1954), 115-119.

Harrison, S.J., The Speaking Book: The Prologue to Apuleiuss Metamorphoses, CQ 40 (1990), 507-513.

Haight, Elizabeth H., Apuleius and his Influence (New York, 1927).

Hicter, M., L'Autobiographie dans l'Ane d'Or d'Apulée, L'Antiquité Classique 13 (1944), 95-111 (à suivre) and L'Antiquité Classique 14 (1945), 61-8 (suit).

Hijmans, B.L., Apuleius, Philosophus Platonicus, ANRW 36.1 (1987), 395-475.

de Labriolle, Pierre C., La Réaction Païenne (Paris, 1948).

Lewy, Hans, Chaldaean Oracles and Theurgy (Cairo, 1956).

Mason, H.J., Lucius at Corinth, Phoenix 25 (1971), 160-165.

Mason, H.J., Fabula Graecanica: Apuleius and his Greek Sources, in B.L. Hijmans Jr. and R. Th. van der Paardt (eds.), Aspects of Apuleius Golden Ass (Groningen, 1978), 141-166.

MacKay, L.A., The Sin of the Golden Ass, Arion 4 (1965), 474-80.

Millar, Fergus, The World of the Golden Ass, JRS 71 (1981), 63-75.

Monceaux, Paul, Apulée, Roman et Magie (Paris, 1888).

Moreschini, Claudio, Sulla fama di Apuleio nella tarda antichitá, in W. den Boer, P.G. van der Nat, C.M.J. Sicking and J.C.M. van Winden (eds.), Romanitas et Christianas (Amsterdam, 1973),243-248.

Mortley, Raoul, Apuleius and Platonic Theology, AJP 93 (1972), 584-590.

Mouterde, P. René, Le Glaive de Dardanos: Objects et Inscriptions Magiques de Syrie Mélanges de LUniversité Saint-Joseph 15 (1930), 53-136.

Nock, A.D., Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo (Oxford, 1933).

Norwood, Frances, The Magic Pilgrimage of Apuleius, Phoenix 10 (1965), 1-12.

Opeku, Fabian, A Commentary with Introduction on the Florida of Apuleius (diss. University of London, 1974).

Pack, Roger A., Adventures of a Dilettante in a Provincial Family, CJ 35 (1939), 67-80.

Pack, R.A., The Sibyl in a Lamp, TAPA 87 (1956), 190-91.

Penella, R.J., An Overlooked Story about Apollonius of Tyana in Anastasius Sinaita, Traditio 34 (1978), 414-415.

Reardon, B.P., Erotica Antiqua: Acta of the International Conference on the Ancient Novel (Bangor, Wales, 1977).

Rist, Martin, Two Isiac Mystics: Plutarch the Theologian and Apuleius the Priest (Chicago, 1936).

Schlam, Carl C., Platonica in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, TAPA 101 (1970), 477-487.

Schlam, C. C., The Scholarship on Apuleius since 1938, CW 64 (1971), 285-309.

Schlam, C. C., Sex and Sanctity: the relations of male and female in the Metamorphoses, in B.L. Hijmans Jr. and R. Th. van der Paardt (eds.), Aspects of Apuleius Golden Ass (Groningen, 1978), 95-106.

Schlam, C.C., The Metamorphoses of Apuleius: On Making an Ass of Oneself (Chapel Hill, 1992).

Seelinger, Robert A., Magical Motifs in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius (diss. University of Missouri-Columbia, 1981).

Simon, Marcel, Apulée et le Christianisme, in Mél. Henri-Charles Puech (Paris, 1974).

Summers, Richard G., A Legal Commentary on the Metamorphoses of Apuleius (diss. Princeton, 1967).

Summers, R.G., Roman Justice and Apuleius Metamorphoses, TAPA 101 (1970), 511-531.

Summers, R.G., Apuleius Juridicus, Historia 21 (1972), 120-126.

Tatum, James, The Tales in Apuleius Metamorphoses, TAPA 100 (1969), 487-527.

Tatum, J., Apuleius and Metamorphoses, AJP 93 (1972), 306-313.

Tatum, J., Apuleius and the Golden Ass (Ithaca, 1979).

Thompson, L.A., Notes on Apuleiuss Apologia, Museum Africum 6 (1977-1978), 1-8.

Vallette, Paul, LApologie d'Apulée (Paris, 1908).

van den Broek, R., Apuleius on the Nature of God (De Platon, 190-191), in J. den Boeft and A.H.M. Kessels (eds.), Actus: Studies in Honour of H.L.W. Nelson (Utrecht, 1982), 57-72.

van der Paardt, Rudolf Theodoor, The Metamorphoses: A commentary on book III with text and introduction (Amsterdam, 1971).

Walsh, P.G., Lucius Madaurensis, Phoenix 22 (1968), 143-157.

Walsh, P.G., Apuleius, in E.J. Kenney (ed.), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: The Later Principate (Cambridge, 1982), 92-104.

Walsh, P.G., The Rights and Wrongs of Curiousity (Plutarch to Augustine), Greece and Rome 35 (1988), 73-85.

Ward, Philip, Apuleius on Trial at Sabratha (Stoughton, Wisc., 1968).

Winkler, John J., Auctor and Actor: A Narratological Reading of Apuleiuss The Golden Ass (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1985).

Winter, Thomas Nelson, Apology as Prosecution: The Trial of Apuleius (diss. Northwestern, 1968).

Winter, T.N., The Publication of Apuleiuss Apology, TAPA 100 (1969), 607-612.


Works Not About Apuleius,
but Useful for Understanding Both His Life
and the Various Issues of the Apologia
, Some Being of Particular Relevance

Armstrong, Arthur Hillary, Was Plotinus a Magician? Phronesis 1 (1956), 73-79.

Aune, David E., Magic in Early Christianity, ANRW II.23.2 (1980), 1507-1557.

Barb, A.A., The Survival of Magic Arts, in Arnaldo Momigliano (ed.), The Conflict between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century (Oxford, 1963), 100-125.

Betz, Hans Dieter (ed.), The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation (Chicago, 1985).

Birley, Anthony R., Septimius Severus: The African Emperor (London, 1972); 2nd edn.=The African Emperor: Septimius Severus (New Haven, 1988).

Blackburn, Barry, Theos Aner and the Markan Miracle Traditions (Tübingen, 1991).

Bonner, Campbell, A Papyrus Describing Magical Powers, TAPA 52 (1921), 111-118.

Bonner, C., Witchcraft in the Lecture Room of Libanius, TAPA 63 (1932), 34-44.

Bonner, C., The Sibyl and Bottle Imps, in Robert P. Casey, Silva Lake, Agnes K. Lake (eds.), Quantulacumque: Studies Presented to Kirsopp Lake (London, 1937), 1-8.

Bonner, C., Studies in Magical Amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian (Ann Arbor, 1950).

Bowersock, Glen W., Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire (London, 1969).

Bowersock, G.W. (ed.), Approaches to the Second Sophistic (University Park, Penn., 1974).

Brown, Peter, Augustine of Hippo (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1967).

Brown, P., Sorcery, Demons and the Rise of Christianity: from Late Antiquity into the Middle Ages, in Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine (New York, 1972).

Bruhl, Adrien, Liber Pater: Origine et Expansion du Culte dionysiaque à Rome et dans le Monde romain (Paris, 1953).

Brumbaugh, Robert S., Ancient Greek Gadgets and Machines (New York, 1966).

Burkert, Walter, Greek Religion, trans. John Raffan (Cambridge, Mass., 1985); 1st edn.=Griechische Religion der archaischen und klassischen Epoche (Stuttgart, 1977).

Burkert, Walter, Ancient Mystery Cults (Cambridge, Mass., 1987).

Burriss, Eli Edward, The Magical Elements in Roman Prayers, CP 25 (1930), 47-55.

Chapuis, Alfred and Gélis, Edouard, Le Monde des Automates, 2 vols. (Paris, 1928).

Collins-Clinton, Jacquelyn, A Late Antique Shrine of Liber Pater at Cosa (Leiden, 1977).

Daniel, Robert W. and Maltomini, Franco, From the African Psalter and Liturgy, ZPE 74 (1988), 253-265.

Daniel, R.W. and Maltomini, F., Supplementum Magicum 1 (Opladen, 1990).

Daniel, R.W. and Maltomini, F., Supplementum Magicum 2 (Opladen, 1992).

Daniel, R.W., Intrigue in the Cloister: P.G.M. LXVI, ZPE 89 (1991), 119-120.

Delatte, Armand, La Catoptromancie Grecque et ses Dérivés (Liège, 1932).

Delatte, A. and Derchain, Philippe, Les Intailles Magiques Gréco-Égyptiennes (Paris, 1964).

Dillon, J.M., Plutarch and Second Century Platonism, in A.H. Armstrong (ed.), Classical Mediterranean Spirituality (New York, 1986), 214-229.

Dodds, E.R., Theurgy and its Relationship to Neoplatonism, JRS 37 (1947), 55-69 (as reprinted in The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1951), 283-311).

Dodds, E.R. A Fragment of a Greek Novel (P.Mich. inv. no. 5), in Mary E. White (ed.), Studies in Honor of Gilbert Norwood (Toronto, 1952), 133-137.

Dodds, E.R., Pagans and Christians in an Age of Anxiety (Cambridge, 1965).

Dodds, E.R., Supernormal Phenomena in Classical Antiquity, in The Ancient Concept of Progress (Oxford, 1973), 156-210.

Dumézil, Georges, Archaic Roman Religion, 2 vols., trans. Philip Krapp (Chicago, 1970); 1st edn.=La Religion romaine archaïque (Paris, 1966).

Duncan-Jones, R.P., The Chronology of the Priesthood of Africa Proconsularis under the Principate, Epigraphische Studien 5 (1968), 151-158.

Dzielska, Maria, Apollonius of Tyana in Legend and History (Rome, 1986).

Edelstein, Emma and Ludwig, Asclepius: A Collection and Interpretation of the Testimonies, 2 vols. (Baltimore, 1945).

Edelstein, L., Ancient Medicine, ed. Owsei Temkin and C. Lilian Temkin (Baltimore, 1967).

Faraone, Christopher A., An Accusation of Magic in Classical Athens (Ar. Wasps 946-48), TAPA 119 (1989), 149-160.

C.A. Faraone, The Agonistic Context of Early Greek Binding Spells, in C.A. Faraone and D. Obbink (eds.), Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion (New York, 1991), 3-32.

Fowden, Garth, The Platonist Philosopher and his Circle in Late Antiquity, Philosophia 7 (1977), 359-383.

Fowden, G., Late Antique Paganism Reasoned and Revealed JRS 71 (1981), 178-82.

Fowden, G., The Pagan Holy Man in Late Antique Society JHS 102 (1982), 33-59.

Fowden, G., Pagan Versions of the Rain Miracle of A.D. 172, Historia 36 (1987), 83-95.

Fraser, P.M., Ptolemaic Alexandria, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1972).

Gager, John G., Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World (New York, 1992).

de Gandt, François, Force et Science des Machines, in Jonathan Barnes, Jacques Brunschwig, Myles Burnyeat, Malcolm Schofield (eds.), Science and Speculation: Studies in Hellenistic Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 1982), 96-127.

Gilliams, J.F., The Plague under Marcus Aurelius, AJP 82 (1961), 225-251.

Graf, Fritz, Prayer in Magical and Religious Ritual, in C.A. Faraone and D. Obbink (eds.), Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion (New York, 1991), 188-213.

Green, P.M., Prolegomena to the Study of Magic and Superstition in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder, with reference to Book XXX and its sources (diss. Cambridge, 1954).

Griffiths, J.G., The Great Egyptian Cults of Oecumenical Spiritual Significance, in A.H. Armstrong (ed.), Classical Mediterranean Spirituality (New York, 1986).

Hoffmann, R. Joseph, Celsus on the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians (New York, 1987).

Hull, John M., Hellenistic Magic and the Synoptic Tradition (Naperville, Ill., 1974).

Jones, A.H.M., The Social Background of the Struggle between Paganism and Christianity, in Arnaldo Momigliano (ed.), The Conflict beetween Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century (Oxford, 1963), 17-37.

Jones, C.P., An Epigram on Apollonius of Tyana, JHS 100 (1980), 190-194.

Keenan, Mary E., The Terminology of Witchcraft in the Works of Augustine, CP 35 (1940), 294-297.

Kotansky, Roy, Incantations and Prayers for Salvation on Inscribed Greek Amulets, in C.A. Faraone and D. Obbink (eds.), Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion (New York, 1991), 107-137.

Lane Fox, Robin, Pagans and Christians (New York, 1986).

Lea, Henry C., Materials Toward a History of Witchcraft, 3 vols. (Philadelphia, 1939).

Legge, F., The Names of Demons in the Magic Papyri, Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 23 (1901), 41-49.

Lichtheim, Miriam, Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings, 3 vols. (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1980).

Lloyd, G.E.R., Magic, Reason and Experience (Cambridge, 1979).

Lloyd, G.E.R., Hellenistic Science, in A.E. Astin and F.W. Walbank (eds.), The Cambridge Ancient History: The Hellenistic World (Cambridge, 1984), 321-352.

Lowe, Joyce Egerton, Magic in Greek and Latin Literature (Oxford, 1929).

Luck, Georg, Arcana Mundi (Baltimore, 1985).

MacMullen, Ramsay, Enemies of the Roman Order (Cambridge, Mass., 1966).

MacMullen, R., Christianizing the Roman Empire (A.D. 100-400) (New Haven, 1984).

Majercik, Ruth, The Chaldaean Oracles: Text, Translation and Commentary (Leiden, 1989).

Marcovich, Miroslav, The Epigram on Apollonius of Tyana, ZPE 45 (1982), 263-265.

Matthews, John F., The Roman Empire of Ammianus (London, 1989).

Meredith, Anthony, Porphyry and Julian Against the Christians, ANRW II.23.2 (1980), 1119-1149.

Merlan, Philip, Plotinus and Magic, Isis 44 (1953), 341-348.

Merlan, P., Greek Philosophy from Plato to Plotinus, in Armstrong, A.H. (ed.), Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (London, 1967), 14-38.

Miller, Patricia C., In Praise of Nonsense, in A.H. Armstrong (ed)., Classical Mediterranean Spirituality (New York, 1986), 481-505.

Nock, Arthur Darby, Magical Notes, JEA 11 (1925), 154-158.

Nock, A.D., Essays on Religion and the Ancient World, ed. Z. Stewart (Oxford, 1972).

Norman, A.F., Libanius Autobiography (Oration I) (London, 1965).

Parassoglou, George M., Circular from a Prefect: Sileat Omnibus Perpetuo Divinandi Curiositas, in Ann E. Hanson (ed.), Collectanea Papyrologica: Texts Published in Honor of H.C. Youtie, Part I (Bonn, 1976), 261-274.

Pharr, Clyde, The Interdiction of Magic in Roman Law, TAPA 63 (1932), 269-295.

Phillips III, C.R., Nullum Crimen sine Lege: Socioreligious Sanctions on Magic, in C.A. Faraone and D. Obbink (eds.), Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion (New York, 1991), 260-276.

Raynor, D.H., Moeragenes and Philostratus: Two Views of Apollonius of Tyana, CQ 34 (1984), 222-226.

Rea, John, A new version of P. Yale Inv. 299, ZPE 27 (1977), 151-156.

Renehan, Robert, The Staunching of Odysseuss Blood: The Healing Power of Magic, AJP 113 (1992), 1-4.

Rist, John M., Plotinus and the Daimonion of Socrates, Phoenix 17 (1963), 13-24.

de Romilly, Jacqueline, Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, Mass., 1975). Roullet, Anne, The Egyptian and Egyptianizing Monuments of Imperial Rome (Leiden, 1972).

Scarborough, John, The Pharmacology of Sacred Plants, Herbs, and Roots, in C.A. Faraone and D. Obbink (eds.), Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion (New York, 1991), 138-174.

Segal, Alan F., Hellenistic Magic: Some Questions of Definition, in R. van den Broek and M.J. Vermaseren (eds.), Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic Religions (Leiden, 1981), 349-375.

Smith, Jonathan Z., The Temple and the Magician, in Map is Not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions (Leiden, 1978), 172-189.

Smith, Morton, Jesus the Magician (San Francisco, 1978).

Smith, M., Relations between Magical Papyri and Magical Gems, Papyrologica Bruxellensia 18 (1979), 129-136.

Smith, M., The Hymn to the Moon, P.G.M. IV 2242-2355, Proceedings of the XVI International Congress of Papyrology (Chico, Cal., 1981), 643-654.

Smith, R.R.R., Late Roman Philosopher Portraits from Aphrodisias, JRS 80 (1990), 127-155.

Thorndike, Lynn, A History of Magic and Experimental Science during the first thirteen centuries of our era, 6 vols. (New York, 1923).

Tiede, David, The Charismatic Figure as Miracle Worker (Missoula, Mont., 1972).

Vanderlip, Vera Frederika, The Four Greek Hymns of Isidorus and the Cult of Isis (Toronto, 1972).

Versnel, H.S., Beyond Cursing: The Appeal to Justice in Judicial Prayers, in C.A. Faraone and D. Obbink (eds.), Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion (New York, 1991), 60-106.

Wallis, R.T., Neoplatonism (London, 1972).

Wallis, R.T., The Spiritual Importance of Not Knowing, in A.H. Armstrong (ed.), Classical Mediterranean Spirituality (New York, 1986), 460-480.

Walton, Alice, The Cult of Asklepios (Ithaca, 1894).

J.J. Winkler, The Constraints of Eros, in C.A. Faraone and D. Obbink (eds.), Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion (New York, 1991), 214-243.