| Description |
xv, 533 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-489) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Interrogating the magic-gender connection / Kimberly B. Stratton -- From goddess to hag: the Greek and the Roman witch in classical literature / Barbette Stanley Spaeth -- "The most worthy of women is a mistress of magic": women as witches and ritual practitioners in I Enoch and rabbinic sources / Rebecca Lesses -- Gendering heavenly secrets?: women, angels, and the problem of misogyny and "magic" / Annette Yoshiko Reed -- Magic, abjection, and gender in Roman literature / Kimberly B. Stratton -- Magic accusations against women in Tacitus's Annals / Elizabeth Ann Pollard -- Drunken hags with amulets and prostitutes with erotic spells: the re-feminization of magic in late antique Christian homilies / Dayna S. Kelleres -- Bishop, the pope, and the prophetess: rival ritual experts in third-century Cappadocia / Ayşe Tuzlak -- Living images of the divine: female theurgists in late antiquity / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Sorceresses and sorcerers in early Christian tours of Hell / Kirsti Barrett Copeland -- Social context of women's erotic magic in antiquity / David Frankfurter -- Cheating women: curse tablets and Roman wives / Pauline Ripat -- Saffron, spices, and sorceresses: magic bowls and the Bavli / Yaakov Elman -- Victimology, or: how to deal with untimely death / Fritz Graf -- A Gospel amulet for Joannia (P. Oxy. VIII 1151) / Annemarie Luijendijk. |
| Summary |
"Daughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Graeco-Roman culture. The book illuminates the gendering of ancient magic by approaching the topic from three distinct disciplinary perspectives: literary stereotyping, the social application of magic discourse, and material culture."--Publisher. |
| Subject |
Magic -- History.
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Magic. |
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History. |
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Women -- History.
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Women. |
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Witchcraft -- History.
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Witchcraft. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Stratton, Kimberly B., editor.
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Kalleres, Dayna S., 1970- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780195342710 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0195342712 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780195342703 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0195342704 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780199711550 |
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9780199387748 |
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