An international team of scholars from different academic disciplines address some of the most important issues, texts, and objects in the study of ancient magic. The volume is divided into three primary sections. The first part offers new approaches to some of the major theoretical and methodological questions in the study of ancient magic. Most importantly, the authors offer a defense of the term "magic" as a scholarly rubric in the study of antiquity. The contributors to the second part provide novel interpretations of some of the most significant defixiones, amulets, recipes and rituals from the ancient world. The essays also engage with questions of gender, materiality, visuality, and scribal practice. The final section examines the transmission of magical practice, both in antiquity and in later periods. Accordingly, the chapters in this final section allow scholars to approach the study of magic over the longue durée. By placing into dialogue the interests, concerns, and methods of scholars from diverse academic fields, this volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of premodern magic.
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An international team of scholars from different academic disciplines address some of the most important issues, texts, and objects in the study of ancient magic. The volume is divided into three primary sections. The first part offers new approaches to some of the major theoretical and methodological questions in the study of ancient magic. Most importantly, the authors offer a defense of the term "magic" as a scholarly rubric in the study of antiquity. The contributors to the second part provide novel interpretations of some of the most significant defixiones, amulets, recipes and rituals from the ancient world. The essays also engage with questions of gender, materiality, visuality, and scribal practice. The final section examines the transmission of magical practice, both in antiquity and in later periods. Accordingly, the chapters in this final section allow scholars to approach the study of magic over the longue durée. By placing into dialogue the interests, concerns, and methods of scholars from diverse academic fields, this volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of premodern magic.
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Numero 74 in Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche BeiträgeKieli:
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Memory and Religious Experience in the Greco-Roman World
Divination in the Ancient World : Religious Options and the Individual
Religious Associations in the Post-Classical Polis
Ruling the Greek World : Approaches to the Roman Empire in the East
Citizenship and Empire in Europe 200–1900 : The Antonine Constitution after 1800 years
The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry : From the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity and Beyond
Burial Rituals, Ideas of Afterlife, and the Individual in the Hellenistic World and the Roman Empire
Norm and Exercise : Christian asceticism between late antiquity and early middle ages
Signs of weakness and crisis in the Western cities of the Roman Empire (c. II–III AD)
From "Roma quadrata" to "la grande Roma dei Tarquini" : A Study of the Literary Tradition on Rome's Territorial Growth under the Kings
Cicero and Roman Religion : Eight Studies
Pervading Empire : Relationality and Diversity in the Roman Provinces