ISBN: 978-0691230214 Princeton University Press (2019) – £30.00
Given the nature of the literary evidence that is available to us, it is all too easy to image the ancient GrecoRoman world as one of scholars, philosophers, and statesmen. Yet, beneath the literary mirage of scientific thinking and political theory, there is an entire world of the mysterious and the magical. It is this world that Edmonds has sought to reveal, “from the simple