Magika Hiera

Magika Hiera
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9780195354836
ISBN-13 : 0195354834
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Book Synopsis Magika Hiera by : Christopher A. Faraone

Download or read book Magika Hiera written by Christopher A. Faraone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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