The Early Medieval West
Yitzhak Hen
A curse tablet from fourth-century Attica exemplifies many aspects of what has come to be considered magic in Western thought/ Inscribed on a thick tablet. This chapter surveys the history Greece and Rome, up including Republic, with goal illuminating both emergence as discourse alterity, or othering strategy, thought. The corresponding influence this had practice rituals that came magic. Magic operated alterity was part parcel barbarism marginalize certain people practices, peripatetic venders cathartic healing, tablets, unregulated domestic religion women's control over it. also briefly debate among scholars antiquity defining its use heuristic category for ancient societies order clarify how operation is understood social discourse.
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