The first general critique of the interpretations of animal sacrifice established by Walter Burke...

Scholars of classical history and literature have for more than a century accepted `initiation' a...

Initiation has often been accepted as a common phenomenon with a coherent meaning in the Greek wo...

This collection challenges the tendency among scholars of ancient Greece to see magical and relig...

The magical formularies on papyrus are precious witnesses to practices and processes of cultural ...

In this study of poetic form in early Greek elegy, Christopher A. Faraone argues against the prev...

The book discusses short, non-epic, and under-appreciated hexametrical genres, such as oracles, i...

The ancient Greeks commonly resorted to magic spells to attract and keep lovers--as numerous allu...

The chapters in this volume examine a wide variety of genres and sources, from legal and religiou...

The Getty Hexameters looks in detail at a series of forty-four verses inscribed on a recently dis...

Christopher A. Faraone is the Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in th...

The first general critique of the interpretations of animal sacrifice established by Walter Burke...