Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 2: Ancient Greece and Rome
- ISBN-10
- 0485891026
- ISBN-13
- 9780485891027
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 408
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-01-01
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Authors
- Richard Gordon, Valerie Flint, Georg Luck
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- 1999-10-14
- 395 pages
- Paperback
- University of Pennsylvania Press
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