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�…

The ancient Greeks commonly resorted to magic spells to attract and keep lovers--as
numerous allusions in Greek literature and recently discovered voodoo dolls, magical�…

How did ancient Greek men and women deal with the uncertainty and risk of everyday life?
What did they fear most, and how did they manage their anxieties? Esther Eidinow sets side�…

From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study of the origins and history of
the disease commonly seen as afflicting young unmarried girls. Understanding of the�…

From beginning to end of the Iliad, Agamemnon and Achilleus are locked in a high-stakes
struggle for dominance based on their efforts to impose competing definitions of loss�…

Papyri and Zeitschrift f � r Papyrologie und Epigraphik. So vast and daunting in fact has the
bibliography become that the primary author realised after a time that, if he was to have any�…

This paper explores the concepts of nature, cause, and agency as they define Greek
magical practice in the Classical period. I seek first to demonstrate that the authors of the�…

В книге исследуются магические тексты, сохранившихся в русских рукописях, главным
образом XVII-XVIII вв. Особое внимание уделяется любовным заговорам и заговорам�…

Names: Kindt, Julia, 1975-editor. Title: Animals in ancient Greek religion/edited by Julia
Kindt. Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020.| Includes�…

I offer a reading of the Diapeira episode based on the semantics and thematics of akhos. My
findings resolve a crux at 2.171, where Homer identifies akhos as the reason Odysseus is�…