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In Pursuit of Invisibility: Ritual Texts from Late Roman Egypt - AMERICAN STUDIES IN PAPYROLOGY
Richard Phillips
In Pursuit of Invisibility: Ritual Texts from Late Roman Egypt - AMERICAN STUDIES IN PAPYROLOGY
Richard Phillips
A close examination of invisibility in the context of the Greco-Roman world, from the role invisibility enjoys as a literary motif to the ritual spells whose logos and praxis in magic papyri promise the individual that he will move about unseen by others.
160 pages, 8 pls, 10 b/w images
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | November 25, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780970059192 |
Publishers | American Society of Papyrologists |
Pages | 160 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 20 mm · 1.04 kg |
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