This is the first general monograph on ancient Greek dress in English to be published in
more than a century. By applying modern dress theory to the ancient evidence, this book …

" In his sixth satire, Juvenal deplores the pastimes of Roman women, foremost of which is
superstition. Speculating about how wives busy themselves while their husbands are away …

An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman world What did magic mean to the
people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what …

Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts examines Greek amulets with
Christian elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern the processes whereby a …

What did ancient Jews believe about demons and angels? This question has long been
puzzling, not least because the Hebrew Bible says relatively little about such transmundane …

Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic
in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history …

At the heart of this book are some trials conducted in Athens in the fourth century BCE. In
each case, the charges involved a combination of supernatural activities, including potion …

Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was
practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world. The …

As Christian leaders in the first through fifth centuries embraced ascetic interpretations of the
Bible and practices of sexual renunciation, sexual slander—such as the accusations Paul …

Even though the concept of “magic” has suffered severe criticism in academic discourse, the
category continues to be used in many disciplines. During the last two decades, classicists …