Magic in the Ancient Greek World
Book Details
Author(s)
Derek Collins
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
1405132396
ISBN-13
9781405132398
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Sales Rank
#1,149,290
Category
History
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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
