Among the many shadowy figures of Greek myth, few are as intriguing—or as elusive—as Melinoë. She appears only rarely in the surviving ancient material, yet the texts that do speak her name paint a vivid picture: a nocturnal wanderer, half-dark and half-light, who moves between worlds and brings frightening dreams to mortals. Modern scholars see…
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Magic in Ancient Greece
It’s likely that early Greek religion and magic were entwined, and not considered separate practices. These included initiations into various mystery cults, necromancy, purification rites, private religious practices that were not part of any civic cults, and trance ecstasy. The historian Fritz Graf is of the view that these practices were hived off from socially…
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