El complejo mundo de la retórica mágica: una mirada más allá de la coacción

Miriam Blanco Cesteros

doi:10.5209/CFCG.59392

The complex World of Magical Rhetoric: a Glance beyond Coercion

Miriam Blanco Cesteros

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/CFCG.59392

Keywords: rhetoric, pragmatic, magic, Greek magical papyri.

Abstract

In the Greco–Roman religion, gods could listen or not a prayer, attend or not the ritual, but usually there were not problems if the ritual was made correctly, without impurity that could invalidate it and the worshiper invoked gods appropriately. However, in a magical praxis in which the magical practitioner acted for selfish aims outside from normalized religious boundaries, the collaboration of the gods was not guaranteed. Thus, how do magicians got the divine cooperation? My aim in this paper will be to illustrate the rich variety of rhetorical resources and persuasive strategies used in the dialogue with gods by magical practitioners in order to obtain the divine help.

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Blanco Cesteros M. (2018). The complex World of Magical Rhetoric: a Glance beyond Coercion. Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos, 28, 171-193. https://doi.org/10.5209/CFCG.59392

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