H 276 x W 203 mm
240 pages
40 figures, 5 tables (colour throughout)
Spanish text
Published Oct 2024
Archaeopress Access Archaeology
ISBN
Paperback: 9781803278711
Digital: 9781803278728
Keywords
Late Antiquity; Magic; Archaeology; Ritual Landscape; Oracles; Divination; Incantations
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Edited by José Javier Martínez García, Javier Gómez Marín
Paperback
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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.
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 Magica – Leah Mascia
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.