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H 276 x W 203 mm

240 pages

40 figures, 5 tables (colour throughout)

Spanish text

Published Oct 2024

Archaeopress Access Archaeology

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Paperback: 9781803278711

Digital: 9781803278728

DOI 10.32028/9781803278711

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Keywords
Late Antiquity; Magic; Archaeology; Ritual Landscape; Oracles; Divination; Incantations

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12 papers analyse magic and witchcraft in their different aspects and forms in the ancient world from an international and multidisciplinary perspective. Case studies come from Egypt, the Greek and Roman world and from Late Antiquity, and even cover the reception of ancient magic in the modern world.

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Contents

Prólogo – Javier Gómez Marín y José Javier Martínez García

 

La cara en pedazos: valor simbólico la fragmentación de la imagen del rostro en la cultura ibérica – José Fenoll Cascales, Jesús Robles Moreno y Rosa María Gualda Bernal


Medea and uterine magic treatments and control through pharmakos – Maria Regina Candido

 

Sobre las defixiones y figurillas mágicas greco-romanas con ousía: de la “magia imaginada” al registro arqueológico – Paula Arbeloa Borbón

 

Magia erógica en época grecorromana: las gemas mágicas como caso de estudio – Rodrigo Carreño Muñiz

 

Hécate ctonia: origen y evolución de la diosa de las brujas – Arianne Novella Martínez

 

Ars Visio. Representaciones espectrales en el arte griego y romano – Arturo Sánchez Sanz

 

La magia en objetos cotidianos. Los amuletos de la Colonia Clunia Sulpicia – Gustavo Camacho Vélez, Mónica Gorostiza González y Clara Valladolid Esteban

 

De superstitio a herejía: la percepción de la nigromancia en las mentalidades pagana y cristiana – Nina Mejuto García

 

Amuletos y filacterias: procesos de sincretismo en el Occidente tardoantiguo (ss. V-VIII) – Andrés Mánguez Tomás

 

Magia, adivinación, conjuros, pociones y curaciones milagrosas en la Hispania visigoda – José Ángel Castillo Lozano

 

La tradición oracular en Oxirrinco como hilo conductor entre Serapis y Filóxeno – José Javier Martínez García


The Ritual Landscape of Oxyrhynchus: Agency, Context, and Materiality of the Oxyrhynchite Materia MagicaLeah Mascia

About the Author

José Javier Martínez García has a degree in History from the University of Murcia, as well as in Anthropology from the Catholic University of Murcia, a Masters in Geographic Information Systems, a Masters in Archaeology, a Masters in Teacher Training and a Masters in Egyptology. He is co-director of Begastri (Cehegín) and the Martyrium of La Alberca (Murcia) and member of the research team of Los Villaricos (Mula), Los Cantos (Bullas), Coimbra del Barranco Ancho (Jumilla), Phoenician Mazarrón (Mazarrón), Heracleopolis Magna and Oxyrhynchus (Egypt).


Javier Gómez Marín is a graduate in History from the University of Murcia and Master in Medieval Archeology from the University of York. Throughout his professional career, he has worked as an archaeologist in numerous sites belonging to various historical periods both in Spain and abroad (UK, Italy, Palestine, Albania, Bulgaria), working as a freelancer, for private companies and for institutions. such as the University College London headquarters in Qatar. He is currently a researcher at the University of Murcia, linked to the “vivere in urbe” project directed by the professor of Archeology at the University of Murcia, Dr. José Miguel Noguera Celdrán.