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Subject(s)

• Magic—Greece—History [Browse]
• Greece—Social life and customs [Browse]

Related name

• Petropoulos, J. C. B. [Browse]

Series

Routledge monographs in classical studies [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and index.

Contents

• Part I : magic in ancient Greece
• Introduction / J.C.B. Petropoulos
• The 'wretched subject' of ancient Greek magic / David Jordan
• Magic, amulets and Circe / Nanno Marinatos
• Magic and the dead in classical Greece / Sarah Iles Johnston
• Ancient Greek sculptors as magicians / Antonio Corso
• Hocus-pocus in Graeco-Roman Egypt / William Brashear
• Ancient magical gems / Arpad M. Nagy
• Part II : magic in Byzantium
• Introduction : magic in Byzantium / J.C.B. Petropoulos
• Magic and the Devil : from the Old to the New Rome / Spyros N. Trojanos
• Magic and visual culture in late antiquity / Gary Vikan
• Another 'wretched subject' : the demons of the world / David Jordan
• The magician Vigrinos and his victim : a case of magic from the Life of St. Andrew the Fool / George Th. Calofonos
• Spells and exorcisms in three post-Byzantine manuscripts / Agamemnon Tselikas
• Part III : magic in modern Greece
• Introduction : magic in modern Greece / J.C.B. Petropoulos
• Magic and Orthodoxy / Charles Stewart
• Ritual word and symbolic movement in spells against the evil eye / Christina Veikou
• The evil eye among the Greeks of Australia : identity, continuity and modernization / Vassiliki Chryssanthopoulou
• The enchanted garment / Nikos Xenios
• Erotic and fertility magic in the folk culture of modern Greece / Theodore Paradellis
• Part IV : the theory of magic
• Introduction : the theory of magic / J.C.B. Petropoulos
• Talking of magic / Richard Gordon
• Magic as a point of reference in anthropological theory / Eleonora Skouteri-Didaskalou
• Technology and magic / Alfred Gell
• The social dimension of magic / Stratis Psaltou
• Magic, gender and social 'racism' / Constantinos Mandas.

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ISBN

• 0415282322 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780415282321 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007029197

OCLC

156785054

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