附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-337) and indexes.
Greek sorcerers -- Alien sorcerers -- The rivals of Jesus -- Medea and Circe -- Witches in Greek literature -- Witches in Latin literature -- Ghosts -- Necromancy -- Curses -- Erotic magic -- Voodoo dolls and magical images -- Amulets -- Magic and the law.
摘要: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.
