GHOST LORE: Roman Necromancy and the Shades of Ancient Greece
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This episode explores the history of ghosts in classical Greek and Roman culture, including necromancy and related practices.
Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! In this week’s episode we explore the well-documented history of ghosts as they were recorded in classical Greek and Roman culture, owing to older motifs that originated in Sumeria. In the free side of the show we discuss Greek skepticism, spooky Roman holidays to propitiate the dead and an eerily vivid description of Thessalian necromancer Erichtho including a lengthy example of her method of invocation. I probably cursed myself reading. In the ...
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