On 6 March 2010 12:59, Khem Caigan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> The words Magos and Goes are also related through
> their connotations of trickery and jugglery.
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Gorgias
> ( c. 480 - c. 375 ) uses the terms interchangeably
> when he writes of charms crafted by the Goeteia and
> the Mageia that give pleasure or remove pain in his
> /Helen/, asserting that they both use techniques to
> influence the soul and deceive the mind.
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> According to Matthew Dickie, there is no evidence
> that /goetes/ originally had anything to do with
> calling up the dead - see his *Magic and Magicians*
> *in the Greco-Roman World.*
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