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  • The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies

    Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes

    by Christopher Faraone, Sofia Torallas Tovar ...
    Series series New Texts From Ancient Cultures
    In Greco-Roman Egypt, recipes for magical undertaking, called magical formularies, commonly existed for love potions, curses, attempts to best business rivals—many of the same challenges that modern people might face. In The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies: Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes**,** volume editors Christopher Faraone and Sofia Torallas Tovar present a series of essays by ... Read more

    $87.89 CAD

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  • Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World

    Edited by John G. Gager ...
    In the ancient Greco-Roman world, it was common practice to curse or bind an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit. These curses or binding spells, commonly called defixiones were intended to bring other people under the power and control of those who commissioned them. More than a thousand such texts, written between the 5th Century B.C.E. and ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Bibliophobia

    The End and the Beginning of the Book

    by Brian Cummings ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement of physical books by digital media, with accompanying twenty first-century experiences of paranoia and literary apocalypse. It ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

    Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These ... Read more

    $60.79 CAD

  • From Hittite to Homer

    The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic

    by Mary R. Bachvarova ...
    This book provides a groundbreaking reassessment of the prehistory of Homeric epic. It argues that in the Early Iron Age bilingual poets transmitted to the Greeks a set of narrative traditions closely related to the one found at Bronze-Age Hattusa, the Hittite capital. Key drivers for Near Eastern influence on the developing Homeric tradition were the shared practices of supralocal festivals and ... Read more

    $69.59 CAD

  • Egyptian Oedipus

    Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity

    by Daniel Stolzenberg ...
    An examination of the unique, baroque-era, German Jesuit scholar, Egyptologist, polymath, and prolific author and his studies.A contemporary of Descartes and Newton, Athanasius Kircher, S. J. (1601/2–80), was one of Europe's most inventive and versatile scholars in the baroque era. He published more than thirty works in fields as diverse as astronomy, magnetism, cryptology, numerology, geology, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction

    Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces Through Texts and Time

    Edited by Estella Weiss-Krejci, Sebastian Becker, Philip Schwyzer ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is constant and what is locally and historically specific in our ways of interacting with the remains of the dead, their objects, and ... Read more

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  • Hermetica II

    The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies in an English Translation with Notes and Introduction

    by M. David Litwa ...
    This volume presents in new English translations the scattered fragments and testimonies regarding Hermes Thrice Great that complete Brian Copenhaver's translation of the Hermetica (Cambridge, 1992). It contains the twenty-nine fragments from Stobaeus (including the famous Kore Kosmou), the Oxford and Vienna fragments (never before translated), an expanded selection of fragments from various ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Philosophy before the Greeks

    The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia

    by Marc Van De Mieroop ...
    There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philosophy was influenced by Near Eastern traditions. Yet even today there is a widespread assumption that what came before the Greeks was "before philosophy." In Philosophy before the Greeks, Marc Van De Mieroop, an acclaimed historian of the ancient Near ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London

    Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos ...
    This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Collection, London. The content of these manuscripts ranges from medicine, including theories on diagnosis and treatment of disease, to astronomy, philosophy, and poetry. With texts dating from the ancient era to the Byzantine and Ottoman worlds, each ... Read more

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  • Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean

    Edited by Cecilie Brøns, Marie-Louise Nosch ...
    Series Book 31 - Ancient Textiles
    Twenty-four experts from the fields of Ancient History, Semitic philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Classical Philology come together in this volume to explore the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant and the Near East. Recent scholarship has illustrated how textiles played a large and very important role in the ancient Mediterranean sanctuaries. In ... Read more

    $39.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grim Reaper

    by John P. Walker ...
    Death (personification)SentienceCloakScytheBibleSatanAbaddonArchangelSamaelSisyphusSlavic languagesPsychopompRomance languagesAncient GreeceThanatosHypnosHadesCharon (mythology)StyxCharon's obolKeres (mythology)AnkouDullahanCù SìthDialogue ... Read more

    $6.55 CAD