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9780199557325 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 5, 2013, cover price $185.00
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9780199925094 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 20, 2013, cover price $115.00
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9780199925117 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 20, 2013, cover price $31.95
Product Description: The hellenistic royal families, from Alexander the Great to the last Cleopatra, took part in dynastic in-fighting that was vicious, colourful and instructive. In this they anticipated by centuries the better-known excesses under Roman potentates such as Claudius and Nero...read more
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9781905125401 | Reprint edition (Classical Pr of Wales, December 30, 2010), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The hellenistic royal families, from Alexander the Great to the last Cleopatra, took part in dynastic in-fighting that was vicious, colourful and instructive.
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9781405120548 | Blackwell Pub, March 16, 2007, cover price $228.95
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9781444334173 | Blackwell Pub, February 8, 2010, cover price $61.95
Miscellaneous:
9780470997345 | Blackwell Pub, April 15, 2008, cover price $184.95
Miscellaneous:
9780470996911 | Onl edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 25, 2008), cover price $170.00
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9780859898379 | Liverpool Univ Pr, September 15, 2011, cover price $110.00
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9780859898386 | Liverpool Univ Pr, September 15, 2011, cover price $39.99
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9780195385205 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 24, 2009), cover price $29.95
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9781847252302, titled "Night's Black Agents: Witches, Wizards and the Dead in the Ancient World" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 15, 2008, cover price $34.95
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9781847250339 | Hambledon Pr, June 30, 2008, cover price $29.95
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9780415427241 | 1 edition (Routledge, April 25, 2008), cover price $135.00
Paperback:
9780415427258 | Routledge, April 25, 2008, cover price $34.95
Miscellaneous:
9780203932131 | Routledge, February 13, 2008, cover price $29.95
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9781905125166 | Classical Pr of Wales, February 28, 2008, cover price $100.00
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9780954384548 | Classical Pr of Wales, October 1, 2004, cover price $95.00
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 civilizations flourished, including Egypt, from the Greek archaic period through the late Roman empire, this book is the first comprehensive survey of the subject ever published in any language. Daniel Ogden surveys the places, performers, and techniques of necromancy as well as the reasons for turning to it. He investigates the cave-based sites of oracles of the dead at Heracleia Pontica and Tainaron, as well as the oracles at the Acheron and Avernus, which probably consisted of lakeside precincts. He argues that the Acheron oracle has been long misidentified, and considers in detail the traditions attached to each site. Readers meet the personnel--real or imagined--of ancient necromancy: ghosts, zombies, the earliest vampires, evocators, sorcerers, shamans, Persian magi, Chaldaeans, Egyptians, Roman emperors, and witches from Circe to Medea. Ogden explains the technologies used to evocate or reanimate the dead and to compel them to disgorge their secrets. He concludes by examining ancient beliefs about ghosts and their wisdom--beliefs that underpinned and justified the practice of necromancy. The first of its kind and filled with information, this volume will be of central importance to those interested in the rapidly expanding, inherently fascinating, and intellectually exciting subjects of ghosts and magic in antiquity.
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9780691009049 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination.
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9780691119687 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 12, 2004, cover price $49.95
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9780715631805 | Classical Pr of Wales, May 1, 2003, cover price $69.50
Product Description: In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and mythic tradition and in ritual practice. Recently, ancient magic has hit a high in popularity, both as an area of scholarly inquiry and as one of general, popular interest...read more
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9780195135756 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 7, 2002, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and mythic tradition and in ritual practice.
Paperback:
9780195151237 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 7, 2002, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and mythic tradition and in ritual practice.
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9780715629307 | Classical Pr of Wales, August 1, 1999, cover price $59.50
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9780715627167 | Bristol Classical Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $140.00
Hardcover:
9780198150190 | Clarendon Pr, February 22, 1996, cover price $265.00
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