{"product_id":"greek-and-roman-necromancy-9780691119687","title":"Greek and Roman Necromancy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurveys the places, performers, and techniques of necromancy as well as the reasons for turning to it. This book investigates the cave-based sites of oracles of the dead at Heracleia Pontica and Tainaron, as well as the oracles at the Acheron and Avernus, which probably consisted of lakeside precincts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] substantial contribution... Ogden takes on ... Necromancy ... with a huge diachronic sweep and exhaustive trawling of evidence... [This] book will be indispensable to future scholars.\"--Peter Green, Times Literary Supplement \"The thought of raising and consulting the dead runs throughout the history of antiquity... The dead who did come back were often in an angry and violent mood; a hero might be needed to vanquish them, or a potent magic to induce them to be gone... Ogden's [is an] admirably cool and scholarly discussion of necromancy.\"--Jasper Griffin, New York Review of Books \"Ogden's book ... makes it easy for the reader to follow and enjoy the beauty (and sometimes strangeness) of the sources and the accounts of necromancy they provide.\"--Julia Kindt, International History Review \"It is rare and refreshing to read a book of the high caliber of the one under review. The scope is breathtaking, the sources cited are thorough and wide-ranging, and the author's own biases are either nonexistent or kept completely under control. Furthermore, the subject matter is so provocative and the writer's style is so direct and fast paced that it is difficult to put the book down once begun... Whether one sits down to read the book cover to cover or comes to it as a resource tool, there will be no disappointment.\"--Elise P. Garrison, Religious Studies Review \"For specialists, this is a treasure trove of the ancient evidence on necromancy and its related modern scholarship.\"--Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures vii  Preface ix  Abbreviations xi  Introduction xv  PART I: PLACES 1  Chapter 1: Tombs and Battlefields 3  Chapter 2: Oracles of the Dead 17  Chapter 3: The Heracleia Pontica and Tainaron Nekuomanteia 29  Chapter 4: The Acheron Nekuomanteia 49  Chapter 5: The Avernus Nekuomanteia 61  Chapter 6: Incubation and Dreaming 75  PART II: PEOPLE 93  Chapter 7: Evocators, Sorcerers, and Ventriloquists 95  Chapter 8: Shamus, Pythagoreans, and Orphics 116  Chapter 9: Aliens and Witches 128  Chapter 10: Necromancy among the Romans 149  PART III: TECHNOLOGY 161  Chapter 11: Traditional Rites of Evocation 163  Chapter 12: From Bowl Divination to Boy-Sacrifice 191  Chapter 13: Reanimation and Talking heads 202  PART IV: THEORY 217  Chapter 14: Ghosts in Necromancy 219  Chapter 15: The Wisdom of the Dead 231  Chapter 16: Between Life and Death 251  CONCLUSION: Attitudes toward Necromancy 263  Bibliography 269  Index 303","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403734032727,"sku":"9780691119687","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691119687.jpg?v=1730484390","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/greek-and-roman-necromancy-9780691119687","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}