15 Magic and the Principle of Apparent Causality in Pliny’s Natural History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vi
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations x
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 ‘‘These Fragments Have I Shored against My Ruins’’: Apollonius Rhodius and the Social Revalidation of Myth for a New Age 5
7. 2 The Flight-Plan of Daedalus 40
8. 3 Works and Days 1–285: Hesiod’s Invisible Audience 47
9. 4 Athenian History and Historians in the Fifth Century B.C. 67
10. 5 The Metamorphosis of the Barbarian: Athenian Panhellenism in a Changing World 104
11. 6 Text and Context in the Matter of Xenophon’s Exile 133
12. 7 Rebooking the Flute-Girls: A Fresh Look at the Chronological Evidence for the Fall of Athens and the Eight-Month Rule of the Thirty 144
13. 8 A Variety of Greek Appetites 160
14. 9 Alexander’s Alexandria 172
15. 10 The Muses’ Birdcage, Then and Now 197
16. 11 How Political Was the Stoa? 210
17. 12 Ancient Ethics, Modern Therapy 222
18. 13 Getting to Be a Star: The Politics of Catasterism 234
19. 14 The Innocence of Procris: Ovid AA 3.687–746 250
20. 15 Magic and the Principle of Apparent Causality in Pliny’s Natural History 264
21. Appendix A. Tanglewood Tales for the Yuppies 281
22. Appendix B. Homer for the Kiddies 288
23. Bibliography 297
24. Index 307