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 0195303202
- ISBN13 9780195303209
- Publish Date December 2002 (first published 7 November 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format eBook
- Language English