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The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes
Author: Christopher Faraone and Sofia Torallas Tovar
Year: 2022
Format: PDF
File size: 10 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2022
Format: PDF
File size: 10 MB
Language: ENG
In Greco-Roman Egypt, recipes for magical undertaking, called magical formularies, commonly existed for love potions, curses, attempts to best business rivals—many of the same challenges that modern people might face. In The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies: Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes, volume editors Christopher Faraone and Sofia Torallas Tovar present a series of essays by scholars involved in a multiyear project to reedit and translate the various magical handbooks that were inscribed in the Roman period in the Greek or Egyptian languages. For the first time, the material remains of these papyrus rolls and codices are closely examined, revealing important information about the production of books in Egypt, the scribal culture in which they were produced, and the traffic in single recipes copied from them.
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