| Description |
1 online resource (x, 353 pages) : illustrations |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-337) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Greek sorcerers -- Alien sorcerers -- The rivals of Jesus -- Medea and Circe -- Witches in Greek literature -- Witches in Latin literature -- Ghosts -- Necromancy -- Curses -- Erotic magic -- Voodoo dolls and magical images -- Amulets -- Magic and the law. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary mythic tradition and in ritual practice. In this book, Daniel Ogden presents 300 texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. Authors include the well known (Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Pliny) and the less familiar, and extend across the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity. |
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Magic, Greek.
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Magic, Roman.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Occultism.
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Magic, Greek. (OCoLC)fst01005531
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Magic, Roman. (OCoLC)fst01005541
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ogden, Daniel. Magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Greek and Roman worlds. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 019513575X 0195151232 (DLC) 2001036667 (OCoLC)47667212 |
| ISBN |
9780198034483 (electronic bk.) |
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0198034482 (electronic bk.) |
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0195303202 (electronic bk.) |
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9780195303209 (electronic bk.) |
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