Short answers, pulled from the story.
Roman emperor Augustus ordered the burning of 2,000 magical scrolls in 13 BCE. This act highlights the tension between acceptable religious practice and forbidden magic in the ancient world.
The most famous magoi figures from sixth century BCE Greece include Orpheus, Pythagoras, and Empedocles. These individuals possessed attributed magical powers such as healing the sick, influencing weather, or summoning the dead.
Theurgy is defined as high magic practiced by respectable priest-like figures that seeks contact with divinity through soul ascending to heaven. Goetia connotes low specious or fraudulent mageia similar to charm meaning both magic and power to sexually attract.
A magician's kit dating from the third century was discovered in Pergamon in Anatolia containing a bronze table base covered with symbols, a decorated dish, large bronze nail inscribed with letters, two rings, and three black polished stones inscribed with supernatural power names.
Roman law forbade enticing neighbor's crops into own fields by magic because it violated social boundaries regarding property and community relations. An actual trial for alleged violation occurred before Spurius Albinus in 157 BCE.