theromanforum » Blog Archive » ARS ARCANA: The secret science of Magic in the Roman World
An interesting definition of magic was offered by French historian Jean Bottèro: “it’s a system of social facts, based upon the belief of immediate efficacy of a certain number of attitudes, procedures and elements, that was usually employed to create beneficial effects, yet whose relationship with its causes were, from our point of view, perfectly irrational.”
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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