Christopher A Faraone

The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Christopher A. Faraone is the Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities and Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago. He is author of Vanishing Acts: Deletio Morbi as Speech Act and Visual Design on Ancient Greek Amulets and The Stanzaic Architecture of Archaic Greek Elegy.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 184mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1273g
• ISBN-13: 9780812249354
• ISBN-10: 0812249356
• Artikelnr.: 48957009

Autorenporträt

Christopher A. Faraone is the Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Humanities and Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago. He is author of Vanishing Acts: Deletio Morbi as Speech Act and Visual Design on Ancient Greek Amulets and The Stanzaic Architecture of Archaic Greek Elegy.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Abbreviations for Corpora of Magical Texts
Introduction 1
PART I. ARCHAEOLOGY
Chapter 1. Distribution
Chapter 2. Shapes
Chapter 3. Media
PART II. IMAGES
Chapter 4. Action Figures
Chapter 5. Domestic Guardians
Chapter 6. Pharaonic and Ptolemaic Images
PART III. TEXTS
Chapter 7. Prayers
Chapter 8. Incantations
Chapter 9. Framing Speech Acts
Chapter 10. Conclusions and Further Trajectories
APPENDICES
A. Summaries of Recipes for Protective Amulets Worn During Dangerous
Rituals (from the longer PGM Handbooks)
B. Summaries of Recipes from a Curative Handbook Embedded in a Magical
Handbook (PGM VII 193-214)
C. Summaries of Recipes from Smaller Fragments of Curative or Protective
Handbooks
D. Summaries of Recipes from a Fragment of a Curative Handbook (Testament
of Solomon 18.15-40)
E. Summary of Recipes from a Fragment of an Amulet Handbook (S&D 26-39)
F. Summary of Recipes Preserved by Marcellus of Bordeaux
G. Summary of Recipes Preserved by Alexander of Tralles
H. Summary of Recipes Preserved by Aelius Promotus
I. Summary of Recipes Preserved by Dioscorides
Notes
Glossary of Authors and Texts
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
INDICES
General Index
Index Locorum
Ancient Words