{"id":765,"date":"2017-03-25T19:50:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T19:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=765"},"modified":"2017-07-26T17:32:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T16:32:16","slug":"witches-and-soothsayers-in-the-ancient-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=765","title":{"rendered":"Witches and Soothsayers in the Ancient World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birgitta Hoffmann<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/imgres.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-766\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/imgres.jpg?resize=455%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Were there witches in Rome? What did they do? Where there love potions? And where did you go to poison your relatives? Also, how could you find out, if you would be caught or if you were the next emperor?<\/p>\n<p>Witches and Soothsayers were very much a presence in the Roman imagination, but what do we know about their lives and the way they were perceived by their neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n<p>The day school forms part of the 2017 lecture circle on Magic through Time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dayschool<\/strong>: Friday, 5th May 2017 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Time<\/strong>: 11am\u2013 4pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mancent.org.uk\/venues.html\">Wilmslow Parish Hall<\/a><br \/>\nCliff Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 4AA<\/p>\n<p>Please note: The car park is a pay and display car park (\u00a32).<\/p>\n<table width=\"420\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"39\"><strong>Price<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"89\"><strong>Concessions<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"126\"><strong>Minimum No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"166\"><strong>Maximum No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"39\">\u00a332<\/td>\n<td width=\"89\">\u00a328*<\/td>\n<td width=\"126\">9<\/td>\n<td width=\"166\">35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>*\u00a328, if booked before 5 April, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>To book, complete the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MANCENT-booking-form-new.pdf\">MANCENT booking form<\/a>\u00a0and send it with payment to<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Birgitta Hoffmann,\u00a055 Broadwalk, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5PL<br \/>\n<b>email<\/b>: latinteacher@btinternet.com <b>phone<\/b>: 07747 533 070<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birgitta Hoffmann Were there witches in Rome? What did they do? Where there love potions? And where did you go to poison your relatives? Also, how could you find out, if you would be caught or if you were the next emperor? Witches and Soothsayers were very much a presence in the Roman imagination, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":638,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-765","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/765\/revisions\/768"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}