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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

    $57.59 USD

  • Magic and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World

    Studies in Honor of Christopher A. Faraone

    Edited by Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Carolina López-Ruiz, Sofía Torallas-Tovar ...
    This volume explores aspects of ancient magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean, specifically ways in which religious and mythical ideas, including the knowledge and practice of magic, were transmitted and adapted through time and across Greco-Roman, Near Eastern, and Egyptian cultures.Offering an original and innovative combination of case studies on the material aspects and cross ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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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

    $57.59 USD

  • 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

    $62.39 USD

  • 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

    $34.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drawing Down the Moon

    Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World

    by Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III ...
    An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman worldWhat did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use it to try to influence the world around them? In Drawing Down the Moon, Radcliffe Edmonds, one of the foremost experts on magic, religion, and the occult in the ancient world, provides the most ... Read more

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  • 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

    $23.79 USD

  • Women in Antiquity

    Real Women across the Ancient World

    Edited by Stephanie Lynn Budin, Jean Macintosh Turfa ...
    Series series Rewriting Antiquity
    This volume gathers brand new essays from some of the most respected scholars of ancient history, archaeology, and physical anthropology to create an engaging overview of the lives of women in antiquity. The book is divided into ten sections, nine focusing on a particular area, and also includes almost 200 images, maps, and charts. The sections cover Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus, the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Grim Reaper

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

    $6.59 USD

  • The Romance between Greece and the East

    Edited by Tim Whitmarsh, Stuart Thomson ...
    The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world-renowned experts (and some new voices) in classical, Jewish, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Persian literature, focuses specifically on prose fiction, or 'the ancient novel'. Twenty chapters either offer fresh ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism

    by Ian S. Moyer ...
    In a series of studies, Ian Moyer explores the ancient history and modern historiography of relations between Egypt and Greece from the fifth century BCE to the early Roman empire. Beginning with Herodotus, he analyzes key encounters between Greeks and Egyptian priests, the bearers of Egypt's ancient traditions. Four moments unfold as rich micro-histories of cross-cultural interaction: Herodotus' ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Greece and Mesopotamia

    Dialogues in Literature

    by Johannes Haubold ...
    Series series The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
    This book proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. Along the way, the book addresses many questions of crucial importance to the student of the ancient world: how did ... Read more

    $38.59 USD