Magic and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Studies in Honor of Christopher A. Faraone. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Magic and Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Studies in Honor of Christopher A. Faraone

This volume explores aspects of ancient magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean, specifically ways in which religious and mythical ideas, including the knowledge and practice of magic, were transmitted and adapted through time and across Greco-Roman, Near Eastern, and Egyptian cultures.

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III is the Paul Shorey Professor of Greek in the Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA. He has published Myths of the Underworld Journey, Redefining Ancient Orphism, and Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World.

Carolina López-Ruiz is Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions and Mythologies at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the Department of Classics. Her monographs include When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East and Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean.

Sofía Torallas Tovar is Professor of Classics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. As co-Principal Investigator of the project "Transmission of Magical Knowledge: Magical handbooks on papyrus" (2015-), with Christopher Faraone she has spearheaded the re-edition and analysis of 88 magical handbooks from Greco-Roman Egypt.