- Bib ID:
- 4402521
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Routledge, c2008
- x, 196 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- Series:
- Routledge monographs in classical studies.
- Full contents:
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- Part I : magic in ancient Greece
- Introduction / J.C.B. Petropoulos
- The 'wretched subject' of ancient Greek magic / David Jordan
- Magic, amulets and Circe / Nanno Marinatos
- Magic and the dead in classical Greece / Sarah Iles Johnston
- Ancient Greek sculptors as magicians / Antonio Corso
- Hocus-pocus in Graeco-Roman Egypt / William Brashear
- Ancient magical gems / Arpad M. Nagy
- Part II : magic in Byzantium
- Introduction : magic in Byzantium / J.C.B. Petropoulos
- Magic and the Devil : from the Old to the New Rome / Spyros N. Trojanos
- Magic and visual culture in late antiquity / Gary Vikan
- Another 'wretched subject' : the demons of the world / David Jordan
- The magician Vigrinos and his victim : a case of magic from the Life of St. Andrew the Fool / George Th. Calofonos
- Spells and exorcisms in three post-Byzantine manuscripts / Agamemnon Tselikas
- Part III : magic in modern Greece
- Introduction : magic in modern Greece / J.C.B. Petropoulos
- Magic and Orthodoxy / Charles Stewart
- Ritual word and symbolic movement in spells against the evil eye / Christina Veikou
- The evil eye among the Greeks of Australia : identity, continuity and modernization / Vassiliki Chryssanthopoulou
- The enchanted garment / Nikos Xenios
- Erotic and fertility magic in the folk culture of modern Greece / Theodore Paradellis
- Part IV : the theory of magic
- Introduction : the theory of magic / J.C.B. Petropoulos
- Talking of magic / Richard Gordon
- Magic as a point of reference in anthropological theory / Eleonora Skouteri-Didaskalou
- Technology and magic / Alfred Gell
- The social dimension of magic / Stratis Psaltou
- Magic, gender and social 'racism' / Constantinos Mandas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and index.
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Petropoulos, J. C. B
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