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

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

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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subject:	Magic, Greek. Magic, Roman. Magic, Greek. Magic, Roman. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11135613

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ISBN:	9780198034483 0198034482 9780195135756 019513575X 9780195151237 0195151232 0195303202 9780195303209 128048229X 9781280482298 9786610482290 6610482292
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-337) and indexes. Print version record.
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

Table of Contents:

Greek sorcerers
Alien sorcerers
The rivals of Jesus
Medea and Circe
Witches in Greek literature
Witches in Latin literature
Ghosts
Necromancy
Curses
Erotic magic
Voodoo dolls and magical images
Amulets
Magic and the law.