书名: Magic in the Ancient Greek World (Blackwell Ancient Religions)
作者: Derek Collins (Author)
出版社: Wiley-Blackwell (March 21, 2008)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1405132396
ISBN-13: 978-1405132398
Book Description
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.
Review
"If you want to understand how the Ancient Greeks practised and viewed the magical arts then this book is highly recommended." -- The Cauldron
About the Author
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.
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作者: Derek Collins (Author)
出版社: Wiley-Blackwell (March 21, 2008)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1405132396
ISBN-13: 978-1405132398
Book Description
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.
Review
"If you want to understand how the Ancient Greeks practised and viewed the magical arts then this book is highly recommended." -- The Cauldron
About the Author
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.
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