view, which is markedly more favorable to ancient women than men. Its intellectual antecedents
are in an influential paper by Winkler in Winkler 1990a. There is a useful collection of curse
tablets in English translation accompanied by a series of essays dealing with different categories
of the same object in Gager 1992. Ogden 1999 is also helpful on curse tablets. Necromancy in
Greece and Rome is dealt with in Ogden 2001. Johnston 1999a confines her attention to the
Greek-speaking world; she argues for the thesis thatgoe ̄teswere originally persons who
specialized in summoning the dead by their cries of lamentation,gooi. Dickie 2001 deals
with the identity of magicians in the Greco-Roman world. It does not pay sufficient attention
to magicians as conjurers and creators of illusions.
370 Matthew W. Dickie