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Magic in the Ancient Greek World
(Blackwell Ancient Religions)
by Derek Collins
Wiley-Blackwell (March 21, 2008)

"Magic in the Ancient Greek World is an innovative introduction to the practice of magic during the classical period. This book develops a framework for understanding the role of magic in Greek life.

Thematically organized around detailed case studies of individual types of magic, this volume examines the use of spells, drugs, binding curses, figurines, and the specialists who offered them. Collins reveals how each of these magical practices worked and the cultural structures that allowed them to occur.

Original and insightful, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magic possible in ancient Greece."


Contents:

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

1 Magic: What Is It and How Does It Work?
Frazer and Tylor
Malinowski
Magic as Communication
Lévy-Bruhl
Evans-Pritchard
Sympathetic Magic
Magic and the Extended Person
Magic and Analogy
Beyond Frazer
Tambiah and Persuasive Magic
Conclusion

2 A Framework for Greek Magic
Magic and the Gods
Divinity and Nature
The Hippocratics: Magic, Divination, and Epilepsy
Plato and Greek Psychology
Magic and Causality
Greek Magicians
Magoi
Gorgias, Mageia and Goeteia
Other Magical Terms
Conclusion

3 Binding Magic and Erotic Figurines
Binding the Gods
Divine Agents
‘Characters’
Body Parts and Health
Erotic Magic
Figurines
Erotes

4 Homeric Incantations
Pythagoras and Empedocles
The Mechanics of Homeric Incantations
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Verse Combinations and the Power of Metaphor
Intoxication, Choking, and Gout
Incantations and Divination
Neoplatonic Theurgy and Homer
Conclusion

5 Magic in Greek and Roman Law
Magic in Greek Law and Legal Imagination
Trials for Erotic Magic
Theoris, the Lemnian Witch
Plato’s Laws Against Magic
Magic in Roman Law and Legal History
The Twelve Tables
The Lex Cornelia
Magia and Maleficium: Magic and Witchcraft
Apuleius the Magus
The Opinions of Paulus and Later Law Codes
Interpretationes Christianae
The Medieval Inheritance

6 Conclusion

Notes
Select Bibliography
Index



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