Apotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece

Cover\nTitle Page\nCopyright page\nContents Page\nPreface\nConfronting Evil at the Boundaries of the City, the House, and the Human Body\n	Christopher A. Faraone\nWomen’s Choral Apotropaic Songs in Tragic Contexts of Domestic and Civic Disharmony\n	Vasiliki Kousoulini\nApotropaic and Prophylactic Practices at Troizen and Methana\n	Maria Giannopoulou\nSome Thoughts on Apotropaic Devices in Greek Pottery Production1\n	Oliver Pilz\nArchaic Anthropomorphic Figurines from the Argolid Potentially Associated with Ritual Activity of an Apotropaic Character\n	Anna Philippa-Touchais\nTerracotta Figurines of Apotropaic and/or Prophylactic Character in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens1\n	Maria Chidiroglou\nClay Figurines from Smyrna in the I. Misthos Collection at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens: A Study in Deformity and Apotropaic Character1\n	Eirini Peppa Papaioannou\nThe Interpretation of Clay Gorgoneion-Roundels in Sacral Contexts: Evidence from the Sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis at Ancient Messene\n	Maria G. Spathi\nMagic-Related(?) Graffiti on Pottery from Piraeus\n	Daphne Koletti\nReliefs from Ancient Messene: The Motif of the Open Hand\n	Eugenia Lambropoulou\nFearing the Evil Eye in Graeco-Roman Religion and Magic: Remarks on an Apotropaic Bas-Relief from Actia Nicopolis (Epirus, Greece)1\n	Evangelos Pavlidis and Anastasia Giovanopoulou\nSacred Transitions: Protecting City Gates in Sicily and Magna Graecia\n	Valentina Garaffa\nSome Evidence for Amulets in the Demeter and Kore Greek Sanctuary at Ancient Corinth1\n	Sonia Klinger\nTracing the Possible Prophylactic Attributes of Parthenos at Ancient Neapolis (Kavala)\n	Amalia Avramidou\nThings Jingling from the Beyond: Tracking the Amuletic Function of Bells in Roman Greece\n	Dimitris Grigoropoulos\nAn Etruscan Silver Ring Depicting a Scorpion from a Deposit in an Archaic House in Philia (Karditsa)\n	Dimitris Paleothodoros and Christos Karagiannopoulos\nApotropaic and Prophylactic Jewellery from Abdera\n	Constantina  Kallintzi and Kyriaki Chatziprokopiou\nTechnical Phylactery in Graeco-Egyptian Ritual Practice1\n	Barbara Takács\nReflections on Some Cases of interpretatio aegyptiaca on Magical Gems1\n	Dominique Barcat\nA Gem to Counter the Empousa\n	Anastasia Maravela\nChnoubis, Glykon, Agathodaimon, and the Strange Story of the Swamps of Central Macedonia: Notes on Magical Gems Depicting Snakes1\n	Eleni Tsatsou\n‘Against a Demon and Fears.’ A Phylactery in the Archaeological Museum of Perugia\n	Paolo Vitellozzi\nBack cover