TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lotz, Almuth
T1  - Libanius and Theodoret of Cyrrhus on Accusations of Magic
BT  - Between Legal Norm and Legal Practice in Late Antiquity
JF  - Magic ritual and witchcraft
N2  - Both Libanius in his Autobiography (ca. 374) and Theodoret in his biographical sketch of the monk Macedonius in his Religious History (ca. 444) draw their readers’ attention to the accusations of magic as an everyday event in Late Antiquity. Yet there are differences between the ways in which they present their theme. Some of these differences pertain to genre conventions of autobiography and Christian hagiographic writing, but these are further conditioned by the concrete expectations of the intended audience and the authors’ different religious beliefs. While both are primarily engaged in creating different types of role models, the charge of magic functions as a narrative moment that shapes the character of the relevant hero differentially.
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2019.0024
SN  - 1556-8547
SN  - 1940-5111
VL  - 14
IS  - 2
SP  - 211
EP  - 229
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
CY  - Philadelphia
ER  -