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Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Lindsay C. Watson
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-02 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that
Ancient Magic: A Practitioner's Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Philip Matyszak
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-20 - Publisher: Thames & Hudson

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An accessible historical exploration of the methods and motivations behind using magic in ancient Greece and Rome. In the ancient world, magic was everywhere. T
Witchcraft and Magic in Europe
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: Valerie Irene Jane Flint
Categories: Magic
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: A&C Black

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Magic in the Ancient World
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Fritz Graf
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher:

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Ancient Greeks and Romans often turned to magic to achieve personal goals. Magical rites were seen as a route for direct access to the gods, for material gains
Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Language: en
Pages: 380
Authors: Daniel Ogden
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary mythic tradition and in ritual