The Iconography of Magic

Images of Power and the Power of Images in Ancient and Late Antique Magic

Edited by R. Martín Hernández

Extent: 215 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Art & Art History, Classical Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Studies in the History and Anthropology of Religion

Series volume number: 7

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2022)

ISBN: 9789042948822

Price: $100.00

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Synopsis
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The study of magical texts of the Classical, Greco-Roman and Late Antique World has experienced a remarkable impulse since the last decades of the twentieth century until today. The so-called “material turn” in philological studies has promoted an ever-growing interest in the study of the materiality and other non-textual components of ancient documents, which has favored interdisciplinary studies aimed at a holistic approach to ancient texts. From this perspective, the articles collected in this volume offer a series of in-depth case studies of images and other paratextual elements of magical artifacts. Comparative studies, statistical analyses, image-text interconnections, and other analytical possibilities are applied to achieve a greater understanding of the magical objects in question, as well as of the belief system in which they were produced. The book illustrates the importance of iconographic analysis as a fundamental part of understanding Antiquity, its ritual texts, and its magical objects.

Edited by R. Martín Hernández

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