In Pursuit of Invisibility: Ritual Texts from Late Roman Egypt by Richard Phillips

In Pursuit of Invisibility: Ritual Texts from Late Roman Egypt

Richard Phillips

199 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

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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...

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