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impossible to persuade them to ignore in their suspicion of each other the images fashioned out of wax that they saw at their do ...

alter the behavior or fortunes of oneself or others. The reason why so much attention has been devoted to spells cast against ot ...

follow that because there were organized competitions in certain fields, Greek society was any more or less competitive than oth ...

blood (19.455–8). That form of healing became the province of the magician. The author of the tractOn the Sacred Diseasespeaks o ...

century AD, Strabo, drawing on the philosopher Posidonius, compares the esteem Moses enjoyed as a prophet amongst the Jews with ...

234e7–235b6). Since Plato is interested in the relationship between appearance and reality, it is natural that he should appeal ...

handbook of magical tricks that may belong to the late hellenistic period (Irenaeus, Against Heresies1.7.1–2). Some further info ...

father. The author of the account does not imagine that Medea’s magic-working created a reality; twice he speaks of illusions (e ...

Theocritus sheds light on other forms of magic-worker in his portrayal of a courtesan deserted by her lover attempting to bring ...

view, which is markedly more favorable to ancient women than men. Its intellectual antecedents are in an influential paper by Wi ...

PART VIII Intersections: Greek Religion and... ...

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Greek Religion and Literature Thomas Harrison The Use of Literary Texts in the Study of Greek Religion The t ...

maintained, is a ‘‘hothouse plant which never did and probably never could exist or survive in real life’’ (Mikalson 1991:ix). B ...

Texts such as Xenophon’sAnabasisor Herodotus’Histories– perhaps not so overtly ‘‘religious’’ in content as the Theogonyor Andoci ...

1994:144) but also in the attitudes that they express and presuppose in almost any number of other areas. A crucial point here i ...

Retribution is rarely direct. It does not always take the form of direct, divine intervention (for example, through divine epiph ...

himself and does not cause doom to hang over his dear progeny later, while another is not overtaken by justice; before that, rut ...

That the gods are simultaneously represented as characteristically (if not quite exclusively) just and also as characteristicall ...

been emphasized by a number of scholars: Gould 1985, 1994:94; Rudhardt 1992:88, 90, 101–6; Sourvinou-Inwood 1990:20, 1997:162; a ...