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Fritz Graf

Author of Magic in the Ancient World

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Fritz Graf is Professor of Classics, Princeton University.

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Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion (1991) — Contributor — 149 copies
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (2001) — Contributor — 83 copies
Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Secret Cults (2003) — Contributor — 62 copies
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (2005) — Contributor — 56 copies, 1 review
Ancient Magic and Ritual Power (1995) — Contributor — 52 copies
Daughters of Hecate: Women and Magic in the Ancient World (2014) — Contributor — 45 copies, 1 review
A Cultural History of Gesture (1991) — Contributor — 45 copies, 1 review
Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art (1997) — Contributor — 41 copies, 1 review
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History) (2015) — Contributor — 33 copies
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre (2007) — Contributor — 32 copies
Masks of Dionysus (1993) — Contributor — 32 copies
Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World (2002) — Contributor — 31 copies
The 'Orphic' Gold Tablets and Greek Religion: Further Along the Path (2011) — Contributor — 26 copies
A Companion to Greek Mythology (2011) — Contributor — 22 copies
Mantike: Studies in Ancient Divination (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) (2005) — Contributor — 21 copies
Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions (2004) — Contributor — 20 copies
The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations (Edinburgh Leventis Studies) (2010) — Contributor — 20 copies
Interpretations of Greek Mythology (1986) — Contributor — 17 copies
A Cultural History of Humour: From Antiquity to the Present Day (1997) — Contributor — 14 copies
Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice (2011) — Contributor — 13 copies
From Myth to Reason?: Studies in the Development of Greek Thought (1999) — Contributor — 12 copies
Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) (2019) — Contributor — 11 copies
Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece: Essays on Religion and Society (2014) — Contributor — 10 copies
Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives (2003) — Contributor — 8 copies
Women and Gender in Ancient Religions: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen… (2010) — Contributor — 8 copies
The Individual in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (2013) — Contributor — 8 copies
Einleitung in die griechische Philologie (1997) — Contributor — 8 copies
Animals in Ancient Greek Religion (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) (2020) — Contributor — 6 copies
Tracing Orpheus studies of orphic fragments ; in honour of Alberto Bernabé (2011) — Contributor — 6 copies
The world of ancient magic : papers from the first International Samson Eitrem Seminar at the Norwegian Institute at… (1998) — Contributor — 5 copies
Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire (2015) — Contributor — 5 copies
The Gods of the Greeks (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) (2021) — Foreword — 4 copies
Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean) (2018) — Contributor — 4 copies
The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse (Classical Scholarship in Translation) (2016) — Preface, some editions — 4 copies
Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice Ancient Victims, Modern Observers (2012) — Contributor — 3 copies
Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus (2014) — Contributor — 3 copies
Athena in the Classical World (2001) — Contributor — 3 copies
Kykeon: Studies in Honour of H.S. Versnel (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) (2002) — Contributor — 3 copies
The Role of Religion in the Early Greek Polis (1996) — Contributor — 3 copies
Intende, lector echoes of myth, religion and ritual in the ancient novel (2013) — Contributor — 2 copies
Aspects of Roman Dance Culture: Religious Cults, Theatrical Entertainments, Metaphorical Appropriations (German… (2022) — Contributor — 1 copy

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luvucenanzo06 | 1 other review | May 11, 2024 |
Magic in the Ancient World (Revealing Antiquity) by Fritz Graf
Academic treatment of the title subject, with an emphasis on Greece and Rome. The introduction gives a good overview of the history of the study of magic itself (compare and contrast to Druids, Witches and King Arthur).
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