Magic in the Ancient Greek WorldISBN: 978-1-4051-3239-8
Paperback
224 pages
March 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World
takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual
reality that made magic possible in ancient Greece.
- Explores the widespread use of spells, drugs, curse tablets,
and figurines, and the practitioners of magic in the ancient
world
- Uncovers how magic worked. Was it down to mere superstition?
Did the subject need to believe in order for it to have an
effect?
- Focuses on detailed case studies of individual types of
magic
- Examines the central role of magic in Greek life