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- Title
Indian Spices and Roman "Magic" in Imperial and Late Antique Indomediterranea.
- Authors
POLLARD, ELIZABETH ANN
- Abstract
The article focuses on the Roman idea of magic during late antiquity and how it was impacted by foreign spice trade with India and the African kingdom of Kush. The author explains that Indian spices were exoticized by Romans through their connections with magical practitioners in popular literature, including Apuleius’s Meroe in "Metamorphoses" and Philostratus’s Apollonius of Tyana. She discusses how long-distance trade impacted ideas about exotic goods, explores Greek magical amulets and papyri that was available through trade with India, and examines the slave trade between Rome and India.
- Subjects
ROME; ANCIENT magic; SPICES; ROMANS; MAGIC in literature; APULEIUS; PHILOSTRATUS, the Athenian, 2nd/3rd century; APOLLONIUS, of Tyana; GREEK amulets; SLAVE trade; INTERNATIONAL relations; FOREIGN relations of India; INTERNATIONAL trade; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of World History, 2013, Vol 24, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1045-6007
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jwh.2013.0012