Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark
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Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-377) and index
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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index present
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non fiction
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Ancient Greece and Rome
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41096212
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edited by Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark
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Witchcraft and magic in Europe
Summary
The chronological scope of this volume ranges from the heroic age of Homer's Greek East to the time of the rise of Christianity, a period of well over a thousand years. In this long millennium the political and cultural landscapes of the Mediterranean basin underwent significant changes, as competing creeds and denominations rose to the fore, and often accused each other of sorcery
Table of contents
Binding spells: curse tablets and voodoo dolls in the Greek and Roman worlds -- Witches and sorcerers in classical literature -- Imagining Greek and Roman magic -- The demonisation of magic and sorcery in late antiquity: Christian redefinitions of pagan religions
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