Magika Hiera
Title | Magika Hiera PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher A. Faraone |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 313 |
Release | 1997-02-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195354834 |
This collection challenges the tendency among scholars of ancient Greece to see magical and religious ritual as mutually exclusive and to ignore "magical" practices in Greek religion. The contributors survey specific bodies of archaeological, epigraphical, and papyrological evidence for magical practices in the Greek world, and, in each case, determine whether the traditional dichotomy between magic and religion helps in any way to conceptualize the objective features of the evidence examined. Contributors include Christopher A. Faraone, J.H.M. Strubbe, H.S. Versnel, Roy Kotansky, John Scarborough, Samuel Eitrem, Fritz Graf, John J. Winkler, Hans Dieter Betz, and C.R. Phillips.
Magika Hiera
Title | Magika Hiera PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher A. Faraone |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 313 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195111400 |
Annotation This collection challenges the tendency among scholars of ancient Greece to see magical and religious ritual as mutually exclusive and to ignore "magical" practices in Greek religion. The contributors survey specific bodies of archaeological, epigraphical, and papyrological evidence formagical practices in the Greek world, and, in each case, determine whether the traditional dichotomy between magic and religion helps in any way to conceptualize the objective features of the evidence examined. Contributors include Christopher A. Faraone, J.H.M. Strubbe, H.S. Versnel, Roy Kotansky, John Scarborough, Samuel Eitrem, Fritz Graf, John J. Winkler, Hans Dieter Betz, and C.R. Phillips.
Magika Hiera
Title | Magika Hiera PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher A. Faraone |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 1997-02-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019028319X |
This collection challenges the tendency among scholars of ancient Greece to see magical and religious ritual as mutually exclusive and to ignore "magical" practices in Greek religion. The contributors survey specific bodies of archaeological, epigraphical, and papyrological evidence for magical practices in the Greek world, and, in each case, determine whether the traditional dichotomy between magic and religion helps in any way to conceptualize the objective features of the evidence examined. Contributors include Christopher A. Faraone, J.H.M. Strubbe, H.S. Versnel, Roy Kotansky, John Scarborough, Samuel Eitrem, Fritz Graf, John J. Winkler, Hans Dieter Betz, and C.R. Phillips.
Magika hiera : ancient Greek magic and religion
Title | Magika hiera : ancient Greek magic and religion PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher A. / Obbink Faraone (Dirk, eds) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1991 |
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Magika Hiera
Title | Magika Hiera PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher A. Faraone |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 298 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Greece |
ISBN | 9781429415712 |
This is a collection of essays by leading American and European scholars. Its purpose is to remedy the tendency among scholars working in Greek religion to ignore the evidence for what have traditionally been called "magical" practices in ancient Greece. Because this neglect seems to arrive from adherence to a preconceived notion about a clear dichotomy between magical and religious ritual, the editors focus on the relationship between these two areas.
Ancient Greek Love Magic
Title | Ancient Greek Love Magic PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher A. FARAONE |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 239 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674036700 |
The ancient Greeks commonly resorted to magic spells to attract and keep lovers. Surveying and analyzing various texts and artifacts, the author reveals that gender is the crucial factor in understanding love spells.
Magic in the Ancient World
Title | Magic in the Ancient World PDF eBook |
Author | Fritz Graf |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Ancient Greeks and Romans often turned to magic to achieve personal goals. Magical rites were seen as a route for direct access to the gods, for material gains as well as spiritual satisfaction. In this survey of magical beliefs and practices from the sixth century B.C.E. through late antiquity, Fritz Graf sheds new light on ancient religion. Graf explores the important types of magic in Greco-Roman antiquity, describing rites and explaining the theory behind them. And he characterizes the ancient magician: his training and initiation, social status, and presumed connections with the divine world. With trenchant analysis of underlying conceptions and vivid account of illustrative cases, Graf gives a full picture of the practice of magic and its implications. He concludes with an evaluation of the relation of magic to religion.