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The politics of magic
Graeber, David | February 23, 1998 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Magic in the Ancient World," by Fritz Graf. It's especially hard for classicists, who, after all, are likely to be drawn to their field by an admiration for ancient philosophy or art or simply an attraction to what used to be called the classical temper, with its rationality, balance and hatred of excess. This is probably why the last serious attempt at an overall history of magic in the ancient world was written by Pliny the Elder, circa A.D. 77. Fritz Graf's book would seem to be filling a very definite gap.

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MAGIC in the Ancient World (Book); GRAF, Fritz; CLASSICISTS; CLASSICAL philology; OCCULTISM; ONTOLOGY
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