Magic Witchcraft And Ghosts In The Greek And Roman Worlds

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Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 0195151232
ISBN-13 : 9780195151237
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Book Synopsis Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds by : Daniel Ogden

Download or read book Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds written by Daniel Ogden and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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