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Magic, Witchcraft & Ghosts in Greek & Roman Worlds

Ogden, Daniel

This is an invaluable sourcebook containing excerpts from 300 texts, in new translation and with commentary, on many different aspects of Greek and Roman magic, witchcraft and ghosts. Literary and documentary sources, including curse tablets, various inscriptions, spells and so on, in both Greek and Latin, and by writers such as Plutarch, Socrates, Pliny, Virgil, Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, are cited. The entries are cross-referenced linking together themes such as witches, ghosts, sorcerers, necromancy, curses, voodoo, amulets and shamans. 'The range of material is startling and impressive'. The second edition contains updated bibliographies, and an additional 40 texts, contained in an appendix to preserve the original numbering of the sources. 353p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2002, 2nd ed 2009)

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