Magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Greek and Roman worlds : a sourcebook /

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Author / Creator:Ogden, Daniel.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description:1 online resource (x, 353 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:OUP E-Books.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11135613
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ISBN:9780198034483
0198034482
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-337) and indexes.
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Summary: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 practice. In this book, Daniel Ogden presents 300 texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. Authors include the well known (Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Pliny) and the less familiar, and extend across the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity.
Other form:Print version: Ogden, Daniel. Magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Greek and Roman worlds. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 019513575X 0195151232