Greek and Roman Necromancy

Daniel Ogden

Princeton University Press, 2004

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Surveys 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.

ISBN-13
9780691119687
ISBN-10
0691119686
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2004
Publication date
2004-02-01
Pages
320
Dimensions
234x158x20
Weight
558