INVOCATIONS AND OFFERINGS AS STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS IN THE LOVE SPELLS IN PAPYRI GRAECAE MAGICAE.

This paper examines the structural elements - namely, the roles of invocation and offerings - in the love spells of the Greek magical papyri. This is achieved through an analysis of spells that invoke a specific named deity in order to see, whether an underlying formal structure uniting this group o...

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Publicado en:Journal for Late Antique Religion & Culture Vol. 9; pp. 29 - 48
Autor principal: Björklund, Heta
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cardiff University Press 2015
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