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Magic in the Ancient Greek World
Taschenbuch von Derek Collins
Sprache: Englisch

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Magic in the Ancient Greek World is an innovative introduction to the practice of magic during the classical period. This book develops a framework for understanding the role of magic in Greek life.

Thematically organized around detailed case studies of individual types of magic, this volume examines the use of spells, drugs, binding curses, figurines, and the specialists who offered them. Collins reveals how each of these magical practices worked and the cultural structures that allowed them to occur.

Original and insightful, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magic possible in ancient Greece.

Magic in the Ancient Greek World is an innovative introduction to the practice of magic during the classical period. This book develops a framework for understanding the role of magic in Greek life.

Thematically organized around detailed case studies of individual types of magic, this volume examines the use of spells, drugs, binding curses, figurines, and the specialists who offered them. Collins reveals how each of these magical practices worked and the cultural structures that allowed them to occur.

Original and insightful, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magic possible in ancient Greece.

Über den Autor
Derek Collins is an Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. He has written extensively on Greek poetry and its performance, including Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry (2005). Collins has also published on Greek divination and magic, including articles on bird divination, the criminalization of magic in Athens, and the intellectual background to classical Greek magic.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: Altertum
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 224
ISBN-13: 9781405132398
ISBN-10: 1405132396
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Collins, Derek
Hersteller: Turner Publishing Company
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Derek Collins
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2008
Gewicht: 0,332 kg
preigu-id: 102069052
Über den Autor
Derek Collins is an Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. He has written extensively on Greek poetry and its performance, including Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry (2005). Collins has also published on Greek divination and magic, including articles on bird divination, the criminalization of magic in Athens, and the intellectual background to classical Greek magic.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: Altertum
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 224
ISBN-13: 9781405132398
ISBN-10: 1405132396
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Collins, Derek
Hersteller: Turner Publishing Company
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Derek Collins
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2008
Gewicht: 0,332 kg
preigu-id: 102069052
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