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Product Description: Scholars of classical history and literature have for more than a century accepted `initiation' as a tool for understanding a variety of obscure rituals and myths, ranging from the ancient Greek wedding and adolescent haircutting rituals to initiatory motifs or structures in Greek myth, comedy and tragedy...read more

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9780415511056 | Reprint edition (Routledge, April 5, 2012), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Scholars of classical history and literature have for more than a century accepted `initiation' as a tool for understanding a variety of obscure rituals and myths, ranging from the ancient Greek wedding and adolescent haircutting rituals to initiatory motifs or structures in Greek myth, comedy and tragedy.

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By Christopher A. Faraone (editor) and Laura K. McClure (editor)

Hardcover:

9780299213107 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, February 9, 2006, cover price $65.00

Paperback:

9780299213145 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, February 9, 2006, cover price $24.95

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The ancient Greeks commonly resorted to magic spells to attract and keep lovers--as numerous allusions in Greek literature and recently discovered "voodoo dolls," magical papyri, gemstones, and curse tablets attest. Surveying and analyzing these various texts and artifacts, Christopher Faraone reveals that gender is the crucial factor in understanding love spells. There are, he argues, two distinct types of love magic: the curselike charms used primarily by men to torture unwilling women with fiery and maddening passion until they surrender sexually; and the binding spells and debilitating potions generally used by women to sedate angry or philandering husbands and make them more affectionate. Faraone's lucid analysis of these spells also yields a number of insights about the construction of gender in antiquity, for example, the "femininity" of socially inferior males and the "maleness" of autonomous prostitutes. Most significantly, his findings challenge the widespread modern view that all Greek men considered women to be naturally lascivious. Faraone reveals the existence of an alternate male understanding of the female as "naturally" moderate and chaste, who uses love magic to pacify and control the "naturally" angry and passionate male. This fascinating study of magical practices and their implications for perceptions of male and female sexuality offers an unusual look at ancient Greek religion and society. (view table of contents)

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9780674033207 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: The ancient Greeks commonly resorted to magic spells to attract and keep lovers--as numerous allusions in Greek literature and recently discovered "voodoo dolls," magical papyri, gemstones, and curse tablets attest.

Paperback:

9780674006966 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 30, 2001, cover price $33.50

By Christopher A. Faraone (editor) and Dirk Obbink (editor)

Hardcover:

9780195044508 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 17, 1991, cover price $55.00

Paperback:

9780195111408 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 13, 1997), cover price $56.00

Miscellaneous:

9780195354836 | Ebrary, February 1, 1997, cover price $40.50

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9780801480621 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $22.95

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Product Description: References abound in Greek legends and historical accounts to special statues or images upon whose presence the continued safety or livelihood of a city or house depended. These images include statues of predatory beasts or destructive insects, plague gods, dangerous goddesses, and the like...read more

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9780195064049 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: References abound in Greek legends and historical accounts to special statues or images upon whose presence the continued safety or livelihood of a city or house depended.

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