Magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world: studies in honor of Christopher A. Faraone

Preview [Authors and titles are listed at the end of the review]   Until well into the 20th century, Greek culture had routinely been studied in isolation, “confined to a vacuum bell jar,”[1] but since the major studies of Walter Burkert and Martin West,[2] on Mesopotamian “parallels” to Archaic texts, scholarly sensitivity to such connections … Continue reading Magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world: studies in honor of Christopher A. Faraone