Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds [Audiobook] download free by Daniel Ogden
- Listen audiobook: Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds
- Author: Daniel Ogden
- Release date: 2009/5/2
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780195385205
- Rating: 8.56 of 10
- Votes: 314
- Review by: Brenden Mercer
- Review rating: 7.45 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/23
- Duration: 5H17M11S in 256 kbps (83.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-25
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AC3, MP3, WAV, WMA, FLAC, MPEG4 (compression ACE, TAR.LZO, LZO, RAR, ZIP, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2)
- Total pages original book: 416
- Includes a PDF summary of 45 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 34M26S (9 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and mythic tradition and in ritual practice. Recently, ancient magic has hit a high in popularity, both as an area of scholarly inquiry and as one of general, popular interest. In Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds Daniel Ogden presents three hundred texts in new translations, along with brief but explicitcommentaries. This is the first book in the field to unite extensive selections from both literary and documentary sources. Alongside descriptions of sorcerers, witches, and ghosts in the works of ancient writers, it reproduces curse tablets, spells from ancient magical recipe books, and inscriptions frommagical amulets. Each translation is followed by a commentary that puts it in context within ancient culture and connects the passage to related passages in this volume. Authors include the well known (Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Pliny) and the less familiar, and extend across the whole of Greco-Roman antiquity. The second edition includes a new preface, an updated bibliography, and new source-passages, such as the earliest use of the word 'mage' in Greek' (fr. Aeschylus' Persians ), a werewolf tale (Aesop's Fables), and excerpts from the most systematic account of ancient legislation against magic (Theodosian Code).
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval, Mysticism, Magic & Ritual, History Of Religion, Magic, Spells & Alchemy, Classical History / Classical Civilisation, Magic, Alchemy & Hermetic Thought, Witchcraft, Ancient History: To C 500 CE, Witchcraft & Wicca
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 42.91 USD
- Dimensions: 177x252x28mm
- Weight: 738g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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