Thelxis means "enchantment". This is not a book about real magic in Greek society but about idealized conceptions of magic in Greek myth and poetry. The author focuses on the magic in Greek myth and poetry from Homer to Theocritus, before the period of the Roman Empire. He does not hesitate to draw analogies from elsewhere, and on occasion he can be speculative.
- ISBN10 0819186570
- ISBN13 9780819186577
- Publish Date 8 May 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of America
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 344
- Language English