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The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times (Empire and After) by Christopher A Faraone, 1955- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The era of the Roman Empire was distinguished by an explosion of images and texts in a variety of media--metal, papyrus, mosaic, gemstone--all designed to protect, heal, or grant some abstract benefit to the persons who wore them on their bodies or placed them in their homes. In the past scholars have explained this proliferation of readily identifiable amulets by a sudden need for magic or by a precipitous rise in superstition or anxiety in this period, connected, perhaps, with the internal breakdown of Greek rationalism or the migration of superstitious peoples from the East. Christopher A. Faraone argues, instead, that these amulets were not invented in this period as a result of an alteration in the Roman worldview or a tidal wave of "oriental" influence, but rather that they only become visible to us in the archaeological record as a result of a number of technical innovations and transformations: the increased epigraphic habit of the Imperial period, the miniaturization of traditional domestic amulets, like the triple-faced Hecate, on durable gems, or the utilization of newly crafted Egyptianizing iconography. In short, it is only when explicitly protective or curative texts,
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- Author
- Christopher A Faraone, 1955-
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812249354
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities