Book Details
Format
eBook
Pages
353
Language
English
Published
Feb 16, 2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-10
128048229X
ISBN-13
9781280482298
Description
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.
Genres
Fantasy