Edmonds Radcliffe G. III. Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019. — XVIII, 482 p.What did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use it to try to influence the world around them? In Drawing Down the Moon, Radcliffe Edmonds, one of the foremost experts on magic, religion, and the occult in the ancient world, provides the most comprehensive account of the varieties of phenomena labeled as magic in classical antiquity.