The Transmission of Magical Knowledge in the Graeco-Roman World
Studies in Honour of Richard L. Gordon
Hardback (Forthcoming)
(December 2026)
ISBN: 9783515132121
6.69 x 9.49 inches
Price: $104.00
Richard L. Gordon is one of the most influential scholars working in the field of ancient magic over the last two decades.Within the eighteen essays collected in this volume, a diverse group of historians, epigraphers and papyrologists pay tribute to his work by elucidating the transmission of magical knowledge in the Graeco-Roman world, starting with its earliest origins and stretching to Late Antiquity and beyond.
Under this general umbrella, contributors explore a series of central questions, such as the evolution and transmission of these rituals through formularies and different magical artefacts (curse tablets, magical figurines and amulets) as well as the agents involved in these rituals. The volume concludes with an interview with the honorand that sheds light on his extraordinary career.
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Religiöse Geheimniskommunikation in der Mittleren und Späten Römischen Republik
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Neue Perspektiven - nouvelles perspectives - prospettive nuove. Herausgegeben im Rahmen des trilateralen Projektes "Les religions orientales dans le monde greco-romain"
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Studien zu Ambivalenzen früher griechischer Götterdarstellungen (ca. 800 v.Chr. – ca. 400 v.Chr.)
Demeter, Isis, Vesta, and Cybele
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Multiple Ways of Experiencing Citizenship in the Greek World
Décrire et comprendre le sacrifice
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