Authors: Christopher A. Faraone (Editor), Dirk(Ed.) Obbink, Dirk Obbink
ISBN-13: 9780195111408, ISBN-10: 0195111400
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: February 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
This collection challenges the tendency among scholars of ancient Greece to see magical and religious ritual as mutually exclusive and to ignore "magical" practices in Greek religion. The contributors survey specific bodies of archaeological, epigraphical, and papyrological evidence for magical practices in the Greek world, and, in each case, determine whether the traditional dichotomy between magic and religion helps in any way to conceptualize the objective features of the evidence examined. Contributors include Christopher A. Faraone, J.H.M. Strubbe, H.S. Versnel, Roy Kotansky, John Scarborough, Samuel Eitrem, Fritz Graf, John J. Winkler, Hans Dieter Betz, and C.R. Phillips.