Magic and religion : two sides of the same coin?Magic in the Ancient World, Fritz Graf (tr. Franklin Philip) : review article
Fritz Graf's imaginative contributions to the study of myth and ritual are deservedly well known; in this work, Graf brings his own scholarship, and that of participants in a series of seminars at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, to bear on the hitherto rather neglected field of magic in antiquity. The result is an accessible, clear and well annotated guide to the complex world of the ancient magician, which serves both as a valuable introduction to the field and as an invaluable resource for further research and debate.