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| Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion | 
 enlarge | Creators: Christopher A. Faraone, Dirk Obbink
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 686412
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 312
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0195111400
Dewey Decimal Number: 810
EAN: 9780195111408
ASIN: 0195111400
Publication Date: February 13, 1997
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Product Description
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.
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 An Overview of Classical Magic July 7, 1998
22 out of 27 found this review helpful
A good introduction to the contemporary study of magic in the classical world. That this book is a collection rather than written by a single author makes it more valuable as it provides a variety of interpritation in an area that is undergoing large scale renovations. Scholarly and a bit dry this book has nothing to do with the usual new age kook authors that make serious research into mystical studies a pain and then some.
 magic December 14, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
this book is excellent for the study of ancient greek cursing. it really helped with with my essay for ancient greek religion. it is also a very interesting read for people generally interested in magic or ancient greece.
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