Ancient Greek Divination – Sarah Iles Johnston
The first English-language survey of ancient Greek divinatory methods, Ancient Greek Divination offers a broad yet detailed treatment of the earliest attempts by ancient Greeks…
Category: Greek Magick
Ancient Greek Love Magic – Christopher A. Faraone
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 papyri,…
Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts – Georg Luck
Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the “secrets of the universe,” of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this path-breaking…
Magic in the Ancient Greek World – Derek Collins
Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magic possible…
Greek and Roman Necromancy – Daniel Ogden
In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy–the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the dead by sleeping on…
Greek Magic: Ancient, Medieval and Modern – John Petropoulos
Magic has always been a widespread phenomenon in Greek Society, starting from Homer’s Circe (the first ‘evil witch’ in western history) and extending to the…
Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion – Christopher A. Faraone, Dirk Obbink
This well-researched and inspiring collection of ten essays by leading American and European scholars challenges the tendency among scholars of Greek religion to ignore what…