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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew Dickie |
ISBN: | 0415249821 9780415249829 9780203164303 020316430X |
OCLC Number: | 45951576 |
Description: | viii, 380 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The formation and nature of the Greek concept of magic -- Sorcerers in the fifth and fourth centuries BC -- Sorceresses in the Athens of the fifth and fourth centuries BC -- Sorcerers in the Greek world of the Hellenistic period (300-1 BC) -- Magic as a distinctive category in Roman thought -- Constraints on magicians in the Late Roman Republic and under the Empire -- Sorcerers and sorceresses in Rome in the Middle and Late Republic and under the Early Empire -- Witches and magicians in the provinces of the Roman Empire until the time of Constantine -- Constraints on magicians under a Christian empire -- Sorcerers and sorceresses from Constantine to the end of the seventh century AD. |
Responsibility: | Matthew W. Dickie. |
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'Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World is the fruit of prodigious reading and profound scholarship, yet never bogs down to its own accumulation of facts.' - Los Angeles Times'An outstanding book that combines impressive scholarship with clarity and accessibility, and belongs at once in the collection of specialists and on undergraduate reading lists, perhaps even as a prescribed textbook.' - Classical Review Read more...
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