Magika Hiera - Ancient Greek Magic and Religion

Zusatztext This useful and unusual work is highly technical and is aimed at a scholarly! not a general! audience ... highly recommended reading for classicists and students of religion and classical antiquity. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays looks at an area of Greek religion traditionally called "magical practices". Focusing on the relationship between magical and religious ritual, it aims to remedy the tendency for neglect in this area.

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• Authors: Christopher A. Faraone, Christopher A. (Assistant Professor of Cl Faraone, Christopher A. Obbink Faraone, Obbink Faraone
• Assisted by: Christopher A. Faraone (Editor), Dirk Obbink (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.01.1991
• EAN: 9780195111408
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511140-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Ancient Greece, RELIGION / Ancient, RELIGION / Devotional, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient religions and Mythologies