Carastro Marcello, La cité des mages. Penser la magie en Grèce ancienne

The traditional narrative on the history of magic in Greece understands its rise as the result of Near Eastern influence on Greece; μάγος, after all, is a Persian word, attested in Greece at the earliest in the late sixth century BCE, and magical rites have close parallels in Mesopotamian texts. Pas...

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Main Author: Graf, Fritz 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Centre [2007]
In: Kernos
Year: 2007, Volume: 20, Pages: 400-401
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:The traditional narrative on the history of magic in Greece understands its rise as the result of Near Eastern influence on Greece; μάγος, after all, is a Persian word, attested in Greece at the earliest in the late sixth century BCE, and magical rites have close parallels in Mesopotamian texts. Past discussions resulted in two ways of understanding this influence. An older view, palpably committed to an ideologically determined concept of ‘pure’ Hellenism, had it that magic, its practitioner...
Contains:Enthalten in: Kernos
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.4000/kernos.211