Magic and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World (eBook, PDF)

Studies in Honor of Christopher A. Faraone
Redaktion: Edmonds III, Radcliffe G.; Torallas-Tovar, Sofía; López-Ruiz, Carolina

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores aspects of ancient magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean, specifically ways in which religious and mythical ideas, including the knowledge and practice of magic, were transmitted and adapted through time and across Greco-Roman, Near Eastern, and Egyptian cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000989236
• Artikelnr.: 69121186

Autorenporträt

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III is the Paul Shorey Professor of Greek in the Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA. He has published Myths of the Underworld Journey, Redefining Ancient Orphism, and Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World. Carolina López-Ruiz is Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions and Mythologies at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the Department of Classics. Her monographs include When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East and Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean. Sofía Torallas Tovar is Professor of Classics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. As co-Principal Investigator of the project "Transmission of Magical Knowledge: Magical handbooks on papyrus" (2015-), with Christopher Faraone she has spearheaded the re-edition and analysis of 88 magical handbooks from Greco-Roman Egypt.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
A Kind of Magic: A Tribute to Christopher Faraone
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Carolina López
Ruiz, and Sofía Torallas Tovar; Section I Materials; 1. Mustering Knowledge in the Longer Greco
Egyptian Formularies
Richard Gordon; 2. The Composition of GEMF 31/PGM I and Its Sources
Sofía Torallas Tovar; 3. He Means 'Rose': Marginal Notes in the Greek Papyri of the Theban Magical Library
Korshi Dosoo; 4. The Magic Hour: Cultures of Timekeeping in GEMF 57/PGM IV
Kassandra Miller; 5. Practice your Spells When It Suits You Best. The "Cycles of the Moon" Transmitted in GEMF 74/PGM VII and GEMF 55 /PGM III
Raquel Martin Hernández; 6. Stars and Stones: Practice, Materiality, and Ontology in Astrological Rites
Ian S. Moyer; 7. The Limits of Textuality in Artemidor¿s' Oneirocritica
Kenneth W. Yu; 8. Magical Magnets? Mastering the Winds on a North Aegean Island
Sandra Blakely; 9. Fencing in the Drivers and the Chariot Horses in a Latin Defixio from Hadrumetum (DT 277 + 278)
Celia Sánchez Natalías; Section II Cross
Cultural Contexts;10. The Problem of the Magi
Bruce Lincoln; 11. Magicians and Mendicants: New Light from the Marmarini Inscription
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III; 12. Egyptian Herakles and Syrian Aphrodite?: Phoenician Art and Cultural Exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean
Carolina López
Ruiz; 13. Uncovering an Earlier Version of the Demeter
Persephone Story: The Anatolian Background of Hekate's Appearance in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Mary R. Bachvarova; 14. A Bronze Medallion in Madrid: Cross
Cultural and Material Transmission of an Amuletic Tradition from Syria to Sicily
Roy D. Kotansky; 15. "Bind Them as a Sign on Your Hand": Amulets and Tefillin in Rabbinic Texts
Megan S. Nutzman; 16. A Misplaced Mummy: Thelxinoe's Corpse in Xenophon's Ephesiaka
Janet Downie; Epilogue
A Kind of Magic: The Work and Legacy of Christopher Faraone
Clifford Ando.