Magika Hiera

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.