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<p>Magic has always been a widespread phenomenon in Greek Society, starting from Homer’s Circe (the first ‘evil witch’ in western history) and extending to the pervasive belief in the ‘evil eye’ in the twenty-first century Greece. Indeed, magic is probably the most ancient and durable among social and religious phenomena known to classical and other scholars, and it can be traced over a span of some three millennia in sources in the Greek language as well as in an impressive range of visual and
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- Author
- Petropoulos, John;Magic, Greek;Petropoulos, J, C B
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780415282338
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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