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...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Late Antique Religion & Culture Vol. 9; pp. 29 - 48 |
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Cardiff University Press
2015
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