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Flint, Valerie I. J.

Evidence for witchcraft and magic in the Greek and Roman worlds comes from a variety of largely written sources including fictional literature, historical narratives, philosophical and scientific works, religious texts and performative sources. This book is divided into four parts with each author discussing different source material dating from the Homeric period to the rise of Christianity. Subjects: curse tablets and voodoo dolls (D Ogden); witches and sorcerers in Classical literature (G Luck); Imagining Greek and Roman magic (R Gordon); Demonisation of magic and sorcery in Late Antiquity (V FLint). 395p (Athlone 1999)

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