" In In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece, Jessica
Lamont provides the first historical study of the development and dissemination of ritualized�…

An analysis of the rhetorical strategies used in the so-called Greek Magical Papyri to bolster
the authority of the authors provides insight into the authors of these texts and their intended�…

Angelic beings can be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, and by late antiquity the
archangels Michael and Gabriel were as familiar as the patriarchs and matriarchs, guardian�…

In one form or another, the ritual of cursing an enemy by inscribing a piece of lead existed for
over 1,000 years in the regions around the Mediterranean, and for 500 years in the regions�…

The human body is full of fluids. Up to 60 percent of it is made up of water, nearly three-
quarters in the brain and heart, more in the lungs, muscles and kidneys; even our bones are�…

The site of ancient Tainaron has long been associated with the entrance to the underworld
and the consultation of souls at an “oracle of the dead.” While Tainaron's role as a�…

This book is a re-edition and detailed study of a parchment codex from Egypt of the fourth
century CE with Greek and Coptic recipes for healing through magic and pharmacology�…

Magic was a fundamental part of the Greco-Roman world. Curses, erotic spells, healing
charms, divination, and other supernatural methods of trying to change the universe were�…

The Bacchic gold tablets are a remarkable collection of objects from the Ancient Greek
world: inscribed with short verse texts and buried in graves of mystery initiates, they express�…

Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes is the definitive study of the early Christian
theologian Carpocrates, his son Epiphanes, and the leader of the Carpocratian movement in�…