Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds
By:Daniel Ogden
Published on 2002 by Oxford University Press, USA

In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary mythic tradition and in ritual practice. In this book, Daniel Ogden presents 300 texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. Authors include the well known (Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Pliny) and the less familiar, and extend across the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity.

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Book which was published by Oxford University Press, USA since 2002 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780195151237 and ISBN 10 Code is 0195151232

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