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Author:

Faraone, Christopher A., author.

Title:

Vanishing acts on ancient Greek amulets : from oral performance to visual design / Christopher A. Faraone.

Publisher:

Institute of Classical StudiesSchool of Advanced Study, University of London,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xii, 105 pages (some folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Amulets, Greek.
Inscriptions, Greek.
Magic paraphernalia--Greece.

Other Authors:

University of London. Institute of Classical Studies, publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Introduction : oral performance and epigraphic habit -- Fever : palindromes, confrontation and containment -- Bleeding : the evolution of a vox magica -- Headache and sore throat : vanishing acts as expulsion rituals -- Conclusions : a tentative history of disappearing speech-acts -- Appendix : Survey of wing- and heart-shaped names in magical texts : Amulets ; Non-amuletic magic.

Series:

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies supplement ; 115

ISBN:

1905670400 (paperback)
9781905670406 (paperback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)827949348

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)