MAGIKA HIERA - Ancient Greek Magic & Religion - Eds. Faraone & Obbink (Hardback / Oxford University Press, 1991)

MAGIKA HIERA - Ancient Greek Magic & Religion - Eds. Christopher Faraone & Dirk Obbink (Oxford University Press, 1991)

Out of print Hardback w/ dust-jacket. 298 pages.

An important study of ancient Greek magical practice with contributions from Hans Dieter Betz and Fritz Graf. 

This collection challenges the tendency among scholars of ancient Greece to see magical and religious ritual as mutually exclusive and to ignore "magical" practices in Greek religion. The contributors survey specific bodies of archaeological, epigraphical, and papyrological evidence for magical practices in the Greek world, and, in each case, determine whether the traditional dichotomy between magic and religion helps in any way to conceptualize the objective features of the evidence examined. Contributors include Christopher A. Faraone, J.H.M. Strubbe, H.S. Versnel, Roy Kotansky, John Scarborough, Samuel Eitrem, Fritz Graf, John J. Winkler, Hans Dieter Betz, and C.R. Phillips.

Condition: Near fine. The lightest of edge-wear to jacket. Internally clean and unmarked throughout. A beautiful example.