elsewhere have been allocated further PGM numbers for convenience.

History

Production

The corpus of the PGM were not based on an ancient archive, but rather are a modern collection that has been augmented by academics. The unclear circumstances of each text's production, over a span of centuries, have therefore occasioned some debate. Hans Dieter Betz, the English translator of the PGM, claims that the texts form a fraction of the "magical books" that must have existed in antiquity,

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