In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary mythic tradition and in ritual practice. In this book, Daniel Ogden presents 300 texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. Authors include the well known (Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato , Aristotle, Virgil, Pliny) and the less familiar, and extend across the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity.
- ISBN10 0195151232
- ISBN13 9780195151237
- Publish Date 7 November 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 March 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 364
- Language English