Night's Black Agents
«A wide-ranging display of the scholarship proper to a professor of ancient history ... A compendium of ancient spine-chillers.»
Tom Holland, Daily Telegraph
The supernatural lore of Ancient Greece and Rome is vividly brought to life in these pages.The literature of Classical antiquity bristles with horrible witches, mysterious wizards, terrifying ghosts, magic books, curses, voodoo-dolls, even werewolves, vampires and Frankenstein's monsters. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Hambledon Continuum
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 248
- ISBN
- 9781847252302
- Utgivelsesår
- 2008
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«A wide-ranging display of the scholarship proper to a professor of ancient history ... A compendium of ancient spine-chillers.»
Tom Holland, Daily Telegraph
"Ogden is an excellent storyteller ... With perfect ease he pulls off the trick of producing a book that is at once a primer for anybody who knows little or nothing about the subject, introducing famous texts and summarising their contents, and also a contribution to a learned debate." - Times Higher Education Supplement