Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World by Radcliffe G. Edmonds III (Princeton University Press, 2019) Hardcover Edition

Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World by Radcliffe G. Edmonds III (Princeton University Press, 2019) Hardcover EditionRadcliffe G. Edmonds III. Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco Roman World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Hardcover edition. 474 pages. Condition: Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Slightly bumped top of spine and minor shelf wear on dust jacket. Description from the publisher: What did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use

Nicolas de la Reynie

attending especially to their inherent erotic power

Aside from the editor

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Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Revelation in the Ruins

Kristoffer Nodeden

as atavistic forms of magic mutated and found sanctuary in the daily habits of the converted peoples and new paganisms entered Europe with their own forms of magic

whom JSK characterises as ‘akin in a real sense to the Holy Guardian Angel in the Abramelin system

Several themes run throughout the book including visual culture

by the reckoning of the elite

What radiates in the heavens also gives forth its power on earth: in herbs

or the Devil