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Greek and Roman Religion

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds
by Daniel Ogden
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 ...
Paperback. Price GB £17.99

The Sibylline Oracles
by J.L. Lightfoot
The Sibyl was a legendary figure in Greco-Roman antiquity who was credited with verse prophecies, often of an apocalyptic character. Lightfoot describes how she was taken over by Jews in the Hellenistic period, and later by Christians, as a vehicle for their own understandings of prophecy. She explores what those understandings were, and describes how the message was then clothed in the very distinctive and mannered pagan idiom that was the ...
Hardback. Price GB £122.00

Time and Process in Ancient Judaism
by Sacha Stern
This fascinating book investigates time in ancient Judaism. After a comprehensive study of the Rabbinic sources Stern is forced to conclude that time as a concept simply did not exist in ancient Jewish society. Time-wasting for example is never mentioned as a bad thing, calendars are predicated on the idea of a sequence of events not on the idea of time, indeed there isn't even really a word for time in Jewish Hebrew and Aramaic sources. The book ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.95

Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World
compiled by Ross Shepard Kraemer
This excellent sourcebook contains hundrds of primary texts translated into English, expanded and revised for this new edition. Covering women's religion from the 4th century BC to the 5th century AD, it contains a wealth of material grouped thematically relating to many different types of women. The texts are taken from a number of religions and have been translated from many languages. They include documents to and from women, epitaphs, ...
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In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele
by Lynn E. Roller
Known as Matar Kubileya in Phrygia, Kybele in ancient Greece and Magna Mater in Rome, the Great Mother and her cult spread throughout all of the Greek and Roman worlds. Her popularity peaked under Imperial Rome where commentators such as Virgil and Catullus, among others, reflected upon her strong impact on society. To some she symbolised protection, a savour and liberator, to others she was benign, awesome, and frightening. This is the first ...
Hardback. Price GB £41.95

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 ...
Paperback. Price GB £34.99
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From Artemis to Diana: The Goddess of Man and Beast
edited by Tobias Fischer-Hansen and Birte Poulsen
This book contains 19 articles dealing with various aspects of the Greek goddess Artemis and the Roman goddess Diana. The themes presented in the volume deal with the Near Eastern equivalents of Artemis, the Bronze Age Linear B testimonies, and Artemis in ...
Paperback. Price GB £71.50

Religion und Region: Götter und Kulte aus dem östlichen Mittelmeeraum
edited by Elmar Schwertheim and Engelbert Winter
Eleven papers, from a colloquium held in Münster in 2001, examine and contrast religious beliefs in the ancient Mediterranean, with emphasis on the Greek East. These include general regional overviews of cults in Phoenician, Greek and Roman Cyprus, ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00

Alltag der Gotter: Nordrhein-Westfalische Akademie der Wissenschaften 385
by Nikolaus Himmelmann
Proceedings of the Nordrhein-Westfalische Akademie der Wissenschaften, G 385. Gods in Everyday Life. In German. 124p, b/w illus (Verlag Ferdinand Schoningh 2002)
Paperback. Price GB £25.00

Nier les Dieux, Nier Dieu
edited by Gilles Dorival and Didier Pralon
Twenty-eight papers from a colloquium held in Aix-en-Provence in 1999 discuss the history of atheism in antiquity and the medieval and modern worlds. Deny and Gods, Deny the God covers atheism in pharaonic Egypt, Greece and Rome, looks at the Bible ...
Paperback. Price GB £22.50