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EAN13
9789042948822
Éditeur
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Date de publication
20 septembre 2022
Collection
STUDIES IN THE
Nombre de pages
215
Dimensions
24 x 16 x 1,7 cm
Poids
350 g
Langue
eng

The Iconography Of Magic, Images Of Power And The Power Of Images In Ancient And Late Antique Magic

Raquel M H.

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The study of magical texts of the Classical, Greco-Roman and Late Antique World has experienced a remarkable impulse since the last decades of the twentieth century until today. The so-called "material turn" in philological studies has promoted an ever-growing interest in the study of the materiality and other non-textual components of ancient documents, which has favored interdisciplinary studies aimed at a holistic approach to ancient texts. From this perspective, the articles collected in this volume offer a series of in-depth case studies of images and other paratextual elements of magical artifacts. Comparative studies, statistical analyses, image-text interconnections, and other analytical possibilities are applied to achieve a greater understanding of the magical objects in question, as well as of the belief system in which they were produced. The book illustrates the importance of iconographic analysis as a fundamental part of understanding Antiquity, its ritual texts, and its magical objects.
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