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The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies

Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes

By: Christopher Faraone,Sofia Torallas Tovar

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The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies

Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes

By: Christopher Faraone,Sofia Torallas Tovar

In Greco-Roman Egypt, recipes for magical undertaking, called magical formularies, commonly existed for love potions, curses, attempts to best business rivals—many of the same challenges that modern people might face. In The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies: Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes, volume editors Christopher Faraone and Sofia Torallas Tovar present a series of essays by scholars involved in a multiyear project to reedit and translate the various magical handbooks that were inscribed in the Roman period in the Greek or Egyptian languages. For the first time, the material remains of these papyrus rolls and codices are closely examined, revealing important information about the production of books in Egypt, the scribal culture in which they were produced, and the traffic in single recipes copied from them. Especially important for historians of the book and the Christian Bible are new insights in the historical shift from roll to codex, complicated methods of inscribing the bilingual papyri (in which the Greek script is written left to right and the demotic script right to left), and the new realization that several of the longest extant handbooks are clearly compilations of two or more shorter handbooks, which may have come from different places. The essays also reexamine and rethink the idea that these handbooks came from the personal libraries of practicing magicians or temple scriptoria, in one case going so far as to suggest that two of the handbooks had literary pretensions of a sort and were designed to be read for pleasure rather than for quotidian use in making magical recipes.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472220780

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9780472220786

The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times

By: Christopher A. Faraone

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The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times

By: Christopher A. Faraone

Featuring more than 120 illustrations, The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times is an essential reference for those interested in the religion, culture, and history of the ancient Mediterranean.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812249356

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9780812249354

Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus

By: Christopher Athanasious Faraone

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Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus

By: Christopher Athanasious Faraone

This book focuses on the evidence for short, non-epic hexametrical genres as a way of gaining new insights into the variety of their often ritual performance, their early history and how poets from Homer to Theocritus embedded or imitated these genres to enrich their own poems, by playing with and sometimes overturning the generic expectations of their audiences or readers. In doing so it combines literary and ritual studies to produce a rich and detailed picture of a number of genres performed in temples, such as hymns and laments for Adonis, or in other spaces likewise dedicated to traditional speech-acts, such as epithalamia, oracles or incantations. It deals primarily with the recovery of a number of lost or under-appreciated hexametrical genres, which are usually left out of modern taxonomies of archaic hexametrical poetry, either because they survive only in fragments or because the earliest evidence for them dates to the classical period and beyond. Of central importance will be the surviving hexametrical poets, especially those of archaic and Hellenistic date, who embed or imitate traditional hexametrical genres of shorter duration either to give a recognizable internal structure to a shorter poem or to an episode or speech within a longer one"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197552978

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The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy

By: Christopher A. Faraone

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The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy

By: Christopher A. Faraone

In this study of poetic form in early Greek elegy, Christopher A. Faraone argues against the prevailing assumption that it was a genre of stichic poetry derived from or dependent on epic verse. Faraone emphasizes the fact that early elegiac poets composed their songs to the tune of an aulos (a kind of oboe) and used a five-couplet stanza as a basic unit of composition. He points out how knowledge of the elegiac stanza can give us insight into how these poets alternated between stanzas of exhortation and meditation, used co-ordinated pairs of stanzas to construct lengthy arguments about excellence or proper human government, and created generic set pieces that they could deploy in longer compositions. Faraone's close analysis of nearly all the important elegiac fragments will greatly enhance understanding and appreciation of this poetic genre.

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OUP Oxford

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0191553182

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The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times

By: Christopher A. Faraone

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The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies

The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies

The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times

The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times

Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus

Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus

The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy

The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy

The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times

The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times

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