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Ancient magic : then and now / edited by Attilio Mastrocinque, Joseph E. Sanzo and Marianna Scapini.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; Band 74.
- Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; Band 74
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Magic, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (451 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English, Italian and Spanish.
- Summary:
- An international team of scholars from different academic disciplines address some of the most important issues, texts, and objects in the study of ancient magic. The volume is divided into three primary sections. The first part offers new approaches to some of the major theoretical and methodological questions in the study of ancient magic. Most importantly, the authors offer a defense of the term "magic" as a scholarly rubric in the study of antiquity. The contributors to the second part provide novel interpretations of some of the most significant defixiones, amulets, recipes and rituals from the ancient world. The essays also engage with questions of gender, materiality, visuality, and scribal practice. The final section examines the transmission of magical practice, both in antiquity and in later periods. Accordingly, the chapters in this final section allow scholars to approach the study of magic over the longue durée. By placing into dialogue the interests, concerns, and methods of scholars from diverse academic fields, this volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of premodern magic.
- Contents:
- Section 1: Magic as a category: voices from the past, voices from the present : Deconstructing The Deconstructionists: A Response To Recent Criticisms Of The Rubric "Ancient Magic" / Joseph E. Sanzo
- "Pure Magic" And Its Taxonomic Value / Antón Alvar Nuño, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra
- Pliny The Elder Between Magic And Medicine / Orietta D. Cordovanna
- Section 2: Interpreting magical texts and objects : Anti-Witchcraft Rituals Against Depression In Assyro-Babylonian Therapeutic Texts / Silvia Salin
- A Lamella From Vinkovci (Croatia) And The Jewish Necromancy / Attilio Mastrocinque
- Seth In The Fountain Of Anna Perenna? A New Interpretation Of The Container / Cecilia Sámchez Natalías
- Domino Neptuno Corulo Pare(N)Tatur: Magic And Law In The Romano-Celtic World / Francisco Marco Simón
- Lamps As Ritual And "Magical" Objects In Archaeological Contexts / Francesca Diosono
- Magia Y Cultos "Orientales" En La Dacia Romana / Juan Ramón Carbó García
- Play With Fate / Véronique Dasen
- The Use Of Divine Images In The Dream-Divination Recipes Of The Greek Magical Papyri / Christopher A. Faraone
- Women As Users Of Erotic Spells: Evidence Provided By Papyri And Defixiones / Emilio Suárez de la Torre
- Remarks On The Categorisation Of The Divine In The PGM / Isabel Canzobre Martínez
- The Paradox Of A "Magical Hymn": Reviewing The Poetic Compositions Of The Greek Magical Papyri / Miriam Blanco Cesteros
- On The Use Of Breast Milk And Menstrual Blood In The Greek And Roman Worlds / Giulia Pedrucci
- Importancia De La Oposición Derecha/Izquierda En La Magia Y La Astrología / Aurelio Pérez-Jiménez
- Section 3: The transmission of ancient magic : Filosofia E Teurgia Negli Oracoli Caldaici / Franco Ferrari
- Guerra E Magia Nei Cesti Di Giulio Africano / Laura Mecella
- The Transmission Of The Sortes Homericae. A Papyrological Approach To The Texts / Raquel Martín Hernández
- Dottrina Magica Nei Manuali Divinatori Greci, Bizantini E Metabizantini / Salvatore Constanza
- Magic Potions, Homeric Cunning And Jason's Charm: Magic Motifs In Gottfried Von Strassburg's Middle High German Version Of The Tristan Legend / Marina Foschi Albert
- Considerazioni Sull'ecdotica Dei Testi Magici Antichi Alla Luce Del Pleid. J 395 (PGM XIII) / Tiziano Dorandi
- La Prima Apparizione Di Circe Nella Letteratura Greca E Il Fantasma Dell'epos Argonautico Pre-Odissiaco / Carlo Martino Lucarini.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 3-515-12797-6
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