Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and ReligionChristopher A. Faraone, Dirk Obbink 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. |
Contents
1 The Agonistic Context of Early Greek Binding Spells | 3 |
2 Cursed be he that moves my bones | 33 |
The Appeal to Justice in Judicial Prayers | 60 |
4 Incantations and Prayers for Salvation on Inscribed Greek Amulets | 107 |
5 The Pharmacology of Sacred Plants Herbs and Roots | 138 |
6 Dreams and Divination in Magical Ritual | 175 |
7 Prayer in Magical and Religious Ritual | 188 |
8 The Constraints of Eros | 214 |
9 Magic and Mystery in the Greek Magical Papyri | 244 |
Socioreligious Sanctions on Magic | 260 |
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Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion Christopher A. Faraone,Dirk Obbink Limited preview - 1997 |
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