AD 9, Germania, among the brown and auburn leaves lie thousands of Rome's soldiers. Domitius is not yet dead. He flees the barbarian ambush and wanders the fore

In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary mythic tradition and in ritual

Canidia is one of the most well-attested witches in Latin literature. She appears in no fewer than six of Horace's poems, three of which she has a prominent rol

The culmination of a project aimed at showcasing, in a systematic way, the potential of applying anthropological perspectives to classical studies, this volume