ABSTRACT
Evidence bearing on the identity of sorcerers and witches in Classical Antiquity varies in quantity and quality from place to place and from time to time. It is never particularly plentiful, but we are relatively well endowed with information about sorcerers in Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries BC for the very simple reason that more literature survives from Classical Athens than from anywhere else in the Greek world of the period. There is just enough information from other parts of the Greek world to suggest that Athens was not peculiar and that magic-workers were to be found elsewhere.
