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Greek Magic: Ancient, Medieval and Modern

by: Petropoulos, J.C.B.

Price: 89,00 EURO

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Category: Mythology / Ancient Religion
Code: 11710
ISBN-13: 9780415282321
ISBN-10: 0415282322
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2008
Publication Place: London
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 196
Book Condition: New

Greek magic : ancient, medieval and modern
Author:J. C. B. Petropoulos

Summary:Organised chronologically, the intriguing panorama offered by this book guides the reader through the ancient, medieval, modern and even contemporary periods, highlighting the traditions, ideologies and methods of magic in each period of Greek history. It brings together the latest insights from a range of experts from various disciplines: classicists, art historians, archaeologists, legal historians and social anthropologists among others.

Series:
Routledge monographs in classical studies

x, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.


Contents:
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
 
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Greek Magic: Ancient, Medieval and Modern

by: Petropoulos, J.C.B.

  • ISBN-13: 9780415282321
  • ISBN-03: 0415282322
  • Routledge, London, 2008

Price: 89,00 EURO

(in stock)
 

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