Greek and Roman Necromancy /

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In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy - the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the dead by sleeping on tombs, visiting oracles, and attempting to reanimate corpses and skulls. Ranging over many of the lands in which Greek and Roman civil...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ogden, Daniel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Magic, Roman.
Magic, Greek.
Magie romaine.
Magie grecque.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Places: Tombs and Battlefields
  • Oracles of the Dead
  • The Heracleia Pontica and Tainaron Nekuomanteia
  • The Acheron Nekuomanteia
  • The Avernus Nekuomanteia
  • Incubation and Dreaming.
  • People: Evocators, Sorcerers, and Ventriloquists
  • Shamus, Pythagoreans, and Orphics
  • Aliens and Witches
  • Necromancy among the Romans.
  • Technology: Traditional Rites of Evocation
  • From Bowl Divination to Boy-Sacrifice
  • Reanimation and Talking heads.
  • Theory: Ghosts in Necromancy
  • The Wisdom of the Dead
  • Between Life and Death.
  • Conclusion: Attitudes toward Necromancy.

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