Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and ReligionChristopher A. Faraone, Dirk Obbink Oxford University Press, Feb 13, 1997 - 312 pages This well-researched and inspiring collection of ten essays by leading American and European scholars challenges the tendency among scholars of Greek religion to ignore what have traditionally been called "magical" practices in ancient Greece. Disputing the preconceived notion that a clear dichotomy exists between magical and religious ritual, the essays survey specific bodies of archaeological, epigraphical, and papyrological evidence for magical practices in the Greek world, determining in each case 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. |
Contents
Cursed be he that moves my bones | |
Incantations and Prayers for Salvation on Inscribed Greek Amulets | |
Dreams and Divination in Magical Ritual | |
Prayer in Magical and Religious Ritual | |
The Constraints of Eros | |
Magic and Mystery in the Greek Magical Papyri | |
Socioreligious Sanctions on Magic | |
Selected Bibliography of Greek Magic and Religion | |
Index of Greek Words | |
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