Related Books
Language: en
Pages: 380
Pages: 380
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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
Language: en
Pages: 353
Pages: 353
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-01 - Publisher: A&C Black
The end of the eighteenth century saw the end of the witch trials everywhere. This volume charts the processes and reasons for the decriminalisation of witchcra
Language: en
Pages: 313
Pages: 313
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Annotation This collection challenges the tendency among scholars of ancient Greece to see magical and religious ritual as mutually exclusive and to ignore "mag
Language: en
Pages: 239
Pages: 239
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
The ancient Greeks commonly resorted to magic spells to attract and keep lovers. Surveying and analyzing various texts and artifacts, the author reveals that ge
Language: en
Pages: 492
Pages: 492
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
This volume explores the dragon or the supernatural serpent in Graeco-Roman myth and religion. It incorporates analyses, with comprehensive accounts of the rich