Ancient magic: then and now

by Mastrocinque, Attilio Sanzo, Joseph E. Scapini, Marianna

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Full title :Ancient magic : then and now / edited by Attilio Mastrocinque, Joseph E. Sanzo and Marianna Scapini.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Franz Steiner Verlag
Place of Publication:Stuttgart
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (451 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783515127974, 3515127976
oclc:on1191130118
LC Classification:BF1591
Dewey Decimal:133.4/3

Preface / Giacomo De Angelis -- Foreword / Hans-Christian Günther -- Introduction / Marianna Scapini and Joseph E. Sanzo -- Section 1. Magic as a category: voices from the past, voices from the present -- Deconstructing the deconstructionists: a response to recent criticisms of the rubric "ancient magic" / Joseph E. Sanzo -- "Pure magic" and its taxonomic value / Antón Alvar Nuño, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra -- Pliny the Elder between magic and medcine / Orietta D. Cordovana -- Section 2. Interpreting magical texts and objects -- Anti-witchcraft rituals against depression in Assyro-Babylonian therapeutic texts / Silvia Saln -- A Lamella from Vinkovci (Croatia) and the Jewish Necroman / Attilio Mastrocinque -- Seth in the fountain of Anna Perenna? A new interpretation of the Containe / Celia Sánchez Natalías -- Domino Neptuno corulo pare(n)tatur: magic and law in the Romano-Celtic world / Francisco Marco Simón -- Lamps as ritual and "magical" objects in archaeological contexts / Francesca Diosono -- Magia y cultos "orientales" en la Dacia romana / Juan Ramón Carbó García -- Play with fate / Véronique Dasen -- The use of divine images in the dream-divination recipes of the Greek magical pa…