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How different was the practice of magic in the Latin West from that of the eastern Mediterranean basin? Was it just derivative from Greek practice, or did it have its own originality? The recent discovery of important new curse-tablets in Mainz and in the Fountain of Anna Perenna at Rome has made the question newly topical. This volume contains the first commented editions in English of most of these new texts as well as major surveys of new prayers for justice. Other sections are devoted to the discourse of magic in the West, to the linguistics and aims of cursing, and to the major field of protective and eudaemonic magic up to and including the Visigothic slates and the Celtic loricae. The essays are by well-known scholars in the field as well as by established and younger Spanish scholars.

Magic --- Magie --- History --- Congresses. --- Congresses --- Histoire --- Congrès --- 133.43093 --- Philosophy & psychology Magic Ancient World --- Conferences - Meetings --- Congrès --- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT --- Greek World --- History, Ancient. --- Magi --- Magic. --- Magie. --- Religion --- Roman World --- Magick Studies. --- Witchcraft & Wicca. --- History. --- Historia --- Europe. --- Römisches Reich --- Westprovinzen. --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Magic - Europe - History - Congresses

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This book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magical handbooks found as part of a larger collection of magical and alchemical manuscripts around 1828 in the hills surrounding Luxor, Egypt. Both handbooks, dating to the Roman period, contain an assortment of recipes for magical rites in the Demotic and Greek language. The library which comprises these two handbooks is nowadays better known as the Theban Magical Library. The book traces the social and cultural milieu of the composers, compilers and users of the extant spells through a combination of philology, sociolinguistics and cultural analysis. To anybody working on Greco-Roman Egypt, ancient magic, and bilingualism this study is of significant importance.

Magic, Egyptian --- Rites and ceremonies --- Bilingualism --- Egyptian language --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) --- Magie --- Rites et cérémonies --- Bilinguisme --- Egyptien (Langue) --- Papyrus grecs --- History --- Papyri, Demotic. --- Histoire --- Papyrus démotiques --- Egypt --- Egypte --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Magic --- 133.430932 --- Philosophy & psychology Magic Ancient World Egypt --- Rites et cérémonies --- Papyrus démotiques --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism --- Demotic writing --- Manuscripts, Demotic (Papyri) --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Papyri, Demotic --- To 1500 --- Papyri [Demotic ] --- Manuscripts [Greek ] (Papyri) --- 332 B.C.-638 A.D. --- Bilingualism. --- Civilization. --- Magic. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Greek papyri --- Papyri, Greek --- Manuscripts, Classical (Papyri) --- Manuscripts (Papyri) --- Barbarism --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- Egypt. --- A.R.E. --- Ägypten --- Ancient Egypt --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- ARE --- Egipat --- Egipet --- Egipt --- Egiptos --- Egitto --- Égypte --- Egypten --- Egypti --- Ejiputo --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- Ijiptʻ --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Khēmi --- Maṣr --- Miṣr --- Misri --- Mitsrayim --- United Arab Republic --- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT --- Demotisch. --- Egyptian language. --- Egyptische handschriften. --- Griekse handschriften. --- Magie. --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri). --- Toverspreuken. --- Égyptien (Langue) --- Magick Studies. --- Witchcraft & Wicca. --- Papyrus démotiques. --- To 1500. --- Égypte --- Magic - Egypt. --- Rites and ceremonies - Egypt. --- Bilingualism - Egypt - History - To 1500. --- Egyptian language - Papyri, Demotic. --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) - Egypt.